Kelly Ogbaloi, the chairman of the Edo State Labour Party, has rejected the alleged suspension of Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, pointing out that it was carried out by outsiders to the party.

Kelly in a statement said the names credited to have suspended the national chairman were not known as members of Labour party in Esan East, Ward 4.

The statement read: “I must say that the Labour Party in Edo has nothing to do with the purported suspension of the national chairman, Barr. Julius Abure.

“The strange names like Martin Osigbemhe, Lucky Shaibu, Iseh Zekeri, Omogbai Faruk, Abokhailu Aliu, Ayohkaire Lateef and Job Elamah are unknown to the leaders and members of the party in the affected area, thus their actions, in whatever form, are inconsequential, null and void which should be disregarded in its entirety by the general public.

We are law abiding people in our party that is working hard to ensure we build a new Nigeria of our dreams. So, these faceless people just want to paint a different narrative which we are not ready to succumb to at this time.

“No faceless group of people would be allowed to start spreading falsehood about our National Chairman after he has put in so much effort to build the party. We would resist it with our collective strengths.

“We have checked the record of our members both at the State and LGA, those names are not in our register. If really, they are our members, why are they afraid to use their real names? They know the implication of their action.”