Delta Labour Party in crisis as two chairmen emerge

Two parallel chairmen has emerged in Delta State Labour Party following the sack of the former state chairman, Chief Tony Ezeagwu at the Special National Convention of the party and the inauguration of a Caretaker Committee to fill the vacuum.
This development has triggered crisis in the state as soon as Comrade Emeka Nkwoala was sworn in as caretaker committee, and the appointment of Nkwoala led-committee, are laying claim to the soul of the party in the state.
While Nkwoala’s name was communicated to the state Commissioner of Police, Zanna Ibrahim and the Director of the Department of State Security (DSS) in the state, the sacked Ezeagwu who insisted that he remains the party chairman described the action of the national body as “illegal”.
But the party in a letter signed by the Acting National Secretary of the party, Mr. Julius Abure, said until the state congress is conducted within 90 days to elect new State Working Committee (SWC), the activities of the party rest squarely on the Caretaker Committee.
The National Youth Leader of the party, Barr. Andrew Ukpebitere, who represented the new National Chairman, Dr. Michael Omotosho, during the inauguration of the committee in Asaba warned Ezeagwu to stop parading himself as the state chairman.
Instead, Ukpebitere urged Ezeagwu to summit himself to the disciplinary committee that was set up to try his anti-party activities and other allegations proffered against him or risk being arrested.
He said, “Ezeagwu’s constitutional three years tenure has since elapsed. INEC participated in the Special National Convention. The dissolution also affected the executives of the party in Anambra and Rivers states. He will be arrested in accordance with the law if he does not desist from parading himself.”
He also said the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdulkareem Sallam, who was accused of swindling the party of N1.3 billion will also face the disciplinary panel.