Ewuga told journalists in Lafia that the chairman’s body language suggested that he was working against the party’s chances ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The Nasarawa State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Joseph Ewuga, has openly accused the state chairman of the party, Alexander Emmanuel, of engaging in anti-party activities.
Ewuga told journalists in Lafia that the chairman’s body language suggested that he was working against the party’s chances ahead of the 2023 general elections.
According to Tribune, the governorship candidate alleged that the chairman of the party had been hobnobbing with other political parties to the detriment of the Labour Party in the state.
He added that attitude of the chairman was not only becoming inimical to the party but could undermine the fortunes of the presidential candidate in 2023.
Ewuga said while the party was making significant progress through grassroots mobilisation and sensitisation, which enhanced its membership drive, the chairman was working with the ruling All Progressives Congress and other interest groups against the LP.
“The acceptability rating of the party in the state has been overwhelming as a result of the doggedness of the candidate and other members.
“The recent one-million march in the state, which was my brainchild, has been giving both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sleepless nights,” he noted.
He noted that the party chairman was using the rising profile of the party in the state to feather his own nest by going around to negotiate with other political parties behind key stakeholders.
He gave an instance of how the chairman was allegedly hosted in Jos, Plateau State recently by a candidate of one of the political parties in the race for the 2023 governorship election in the state.
He also accused the chairman of refusing to carry him and others along in the party’s activities, while also alleging that the chairman had attempted to replace him with another person as the party’s candidate before the window was closed for candidates’ substitution.
He urged the party’s national leadership to call the chairman to order before much harm would be done to the party in the state and undermines the progress so far made.
However, when contacted for his comment on the controversy, the chairman of the party, Mr Emmanuel said he could only speak in presence of the governorship candidate.
“He cannot be bigger than the party. I have nurtured this party to this level, so constitutionally, the supremacy of the party prevails,” the chairman explained.
He promised to report the development in the party to the national headquarters for intervention at the appropriate time.