Agents of the Anambra State government have sealed the headquarters of the opposition Labour Party (LP) State office, in Awka, the capital.
Secretary of the Labour Party in Anambra State, Barrister C.J. Okoli-Akirika, lamented that the action was carried out “without notice, warning, or any form of engagement with the party.”
Okoli-Akirika explained that the agents of the State Government, accompanied by men dressed in military uniforms, stormed the Labour Party Anambra State office “and, in a maniacal, frenzied, and frenetic commando-like operation, chased away the staff and sealed the office.”
He said: “It is rather unfortunate, bizarre, and brazen that the Anambra State Government, which is fruitlessly seeking to truncate statutorily emplaced procedures to select Local Government Chairmen and councillors in the deviously convoluted LG election, is now mindlessly resorting to underhand, illegal, and obnoxious intimidation.
“While appealing to the teeming Labour Party members, supporters, sympathisers, stakeholders, and Ndi Anambra in general, the State leadership of our great Labour Party shall, as law-abiding Anambrarians, have recourse to due process to contain and checkmate this unprovoked and untrammelled illegality.”