- Safiu Kehinde
Labour Party has accused its former National Treasurer, Oluchi Oparah, of impersonating the party’s National Women Leader.
The party, in a disclaimer issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiorah Ifoh, knocked Oparah for parading self as the women leader.
According to the disclaimer, Oparah has been suspended since November 2023 over alleged anti-party activities.
While maintaining that her suspension still subsists, LP affirmed Dudu Manuga as the officially recognized National Women Leader.
Oparah, according to the party, never contested for election.
She was labelled an impostor with alleged intent of deceiving unsuspected organizations and defrauding them.
The statement read in part; “It has come to the attention of the leadership of the Labour Party of the illegal activities of a former National Treasurer of the party, Ms Oluchi Oparah who is reported to have been parading herself as the National Women Leader of the party.
“Ms Oparah was in November 2023 suspended indefinitely as a member of the Labour Party for anti party activities. Her suspension is still subsisting. She was never the National Women Leader of the party and she has never contested to be one at any point in time.
“A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others especially for fraudulent gain is an impostor.
“Therefore, her recent actions using the office of the National Women Leader of the Labour Party to seek pecuniary patronage amounts to impersonation.
“Information available to us has it that Ms Oluchi has been seen at different fora fraudulently posing as the National Women Leader of the Labour Party with the aim of extorting these organisations.
“This development has immensely embarrassed the Labour Party, hence this disclaimer.
“For the records, the National Women Leader of the Labour Party is Mrs Dudu Manuga. She alone is constitutionally mandated to oversee the activities of millions of the Labour Party women in Nigeria and across the globe.
“We are by this disclaimer alerting organisations including the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), The Kukah Foundation, Non Governmental Organisations, political associations, National Assembly, and security agencies including the Police and State Security Service amongst others to be aware of her dubious activities.
“The party seizes this platform to warn anyone or organisation being approached by the impostor to contact the police immediately.”