The crisis rocking the Labour Party, LP, has further escalated, plunging the Party into leadership crisis.

Peter Obi, the Party’s Presidential Candidate has however been fingered as the architect of the misfortune that has befallen the Party, with rancour, confusion and legal brouhaha being the lot of the Party.

Sources within the Party has revealed that since the emergence of Obi as the Presidential flagbearer of the Party, he has hijacked the structure of the Party, imposing Candidates and officials into principal positions which doesn’t augur well with members of the Party.

For example, he imposed Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour as the Governorship Candidate of the Party in Lagos State at the expense of Ifagbemi Awamaridi who won the Party’s Primary to emerge as the Governorship Candidate in the State.

Again, he changed the Candidates of the Party vying for electoral positions at the National Assembly and State House of Assemblies.

As a testament of how Obi imposed Candidates since his emergence as Presidential Candidate of the Party at the June 1st, 2022, National Convention, a flood of new entrants entered the Party.

The scenario at Eti Osa Federal Constituency where Ayo Ademiluyi, a Lawyer and Human Rights Activist won the Party’s Primary Election to hoist the Party’s Flag held in his constituency on May 27, 2022.

But Obi was said to have sold the Federal Constituency Ticket to the highest bidder in person of Thaddeus Attah who emerged winner during a false substitution primary.

Ademiluyi has however approached the Court to retrieve his Stolen Mandate.

The States Chairmen had also alleged neglect by Obi. They said Obi failed to recognise the important role of the 36 state chapters’ leadership but rather chose to work with cronies and support groups.

Sani Abdulsalam, the Gombe state LP chairman and co-ordinating chairman for the 36 states who made the allegations at a press conference in Abuja, said such tendencies affected the party’s performance at the polls.

Accompanied by Mohammed Alkali, the national vice chairman, northeast, Ibrahim Bukar, the Yobe state chairman, amongst others, the leader of LP states chairmen alleged that money meant for the mobilisation of poll agents was withheld by the national chairman, Julius Abure.

The crisis however deepens, leading to the sack of Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Party by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday.

He was barred alongside the National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim; the National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara; and the National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu, over alleged forgery.

Justice Hamza Muazu also ordered that the originating processes of the court be served on Abure and others.

The order came a week after a ward in the Edo State chapter of the Labour Party suspended Abure over alleged anti-party activities.

Stalwarts of the Party lamented that the Court Verdict has further compounded the woes of the Party.

The Labour Party Chairman in Bayelsa State, Eneyi Zidongha, said the development was not good for the party.