Otti’s comment comes after the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to pronounce Abure LP chairman.
Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has described Julius Abure’s continued claim of being the National Chairman of the Labour Party as an act of masturbation.
Otti, who appeared on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’, made the remark while speaking on the LP leadership crisis.
The tussle has divided the party into Abure and his allies on one side, and the caretaker committee led by Nenadi Usman on the other.
Otti’s comment comes after the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to pronounce Abure LP chairman.
He also addressed claims about defection plans, reiterating his allegiance to LP.
“Governor Otti is not decamping, and my party (LP) is not on shaky ground; everybody must not be in APC. This is democracy, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held on to his AD, AC, ACN before becoming APC.
“If not, he wouldn’t be president today. Sometimes you have to also stand for something.
“Let me tell you. I was in PDP. And then from PDP, I went to APGA. I went to APC. I’ve been in APC. So that’s not the issue.
“The issue is that the party that brought me to power is Labour. And today we have fought and retrieved the Labour Party.
“When you go through the Supreme Court judgment, you will know that Abure is just masturbating,” he stated.
– Sun Newspaper