The leadership of the Labour Party on Thursday, December 5, 2024, threatened to take legal action against members, especially lawmakers who are leaving the party for other political affiliations.
Obiorah Ifoh, the party’s national publicity secretary, in a statement issued in Abuja said LP has opened a register for members of the House and other elected officials switch allegiance to other political parties in the name of defection.
Ifoh’s statement comes barely hours after four members of the Labour Party lawmakers at the House of Representatives joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said, “The party has also decided to open a ‘Hall of Shame’ register for these lawmakers or any elected official of the party who engages in fraudulent defection without first relinquishing the mandate obtained under the party’s ticket.
“These lawmakers will feature prominently in the register. We call on Nigerians to beware of this genre of politicians, who lack a clear democratic ideology and instead follow a ‘Jumpology’ mentality, hopping from one party to another in disregard of the enabling laws and without any ideological foundation,” he said.
He, however, said that while the Labour Party remains undaunted by the defections, the leadership of the party has instructed its legal team to take action against the defectors.
According to Ifoh, a process of regaining the party’s mandates in line with the 1999 Constitution and the 2022 Electoral Act as amended will begin against the defectors.
