September 04, (THEWILL) – A former minister of finance, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, has emerged as the Caretaker national chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
Darlington Nwokocha, the immediate-past Senate Minority Deputy Leader and 2023 Abia Central Senatorial candidate of the party in Abia State, emerged Secretary of the 29-member Caretaker committee.
The Caretaker Committee is to rescue the party from its current leadership crisis, and organise a convention where a new leadership of the party would emerge from the Ward to the national stage.
Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the party, who announced the development, said the decision was taken at the Party’s extended stakeholders meeting held at the Banquet Hall of the Abia State Government House in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on Wednesday, September 4.
Hosted by Gov. Alex Otti, the massively-attended stakeholders meeting, also had the party’s 2023 Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Ahmed; Senator Victor Umeh; Lagos State governorship candidate of LP in 2023, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and other party members.
THEWILL reports that former chairman of the party, Julius Abure, was absent from the meeting.
In her acceptance speech, Usman emphasised the need for the party to work together.
Formerly a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Usman represented Kaduna South Senatorial District in the National Assembly between 2011 and 2015. She defected to the Labour Party during the 2023 general election.
