THE Labour Party governorship candidate in the state, Philip Munlip, has asserted that he was under pressure by the party’s chairperson, Easter Gulmu to withdraw from March 18 election.
The party is currently embroiled in an internal crisis on who is the authentic candidate of the party between Munlip and Senator Joel Ikenya.
Munlip insisted the chairperson of the party, Gulmu has an agenda to push forth her preferred candidate, Ikenya for the election.
“I wrote the withdrawal letter under duress, but the court ruled the withdrawal out in my favour, the chairperson placed me under pressure and I didn’t know she had gone to the national office for her to buttress her claims that I had withdrawn,” he said on Monday.
The party had in a press briefing on Saturday, distanced itself from Munlip, for his endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Kefas Agbu.
Gulmu described Munlip’s action as “mischief and blackmail” for personal gain.
Speaking further on his alleged compulsion, Munlip said the party leaders had started making plans for his replacement which took effect almost immediately adding that, she made some statement that was not properly justified.
“She informed them telling them that I have withdrawn from the rest and I have written the letter and a fresh primary should be conducted which was not true.”
“After the fresh primary was redone, The Labour Party decided not to properly inform me about the arrangement. It was a direct plan to hitch me out, I was not officially informed of the primary, I went to the national to ask for the letter of the primaries and I was not given. “
According to the evangelist, the reason he endorsed the PDP candidate was that the court case he filed against the conducted primary had not been established.
“The court is yet to declare its judgement and that is why I am endorsing the PDP candidate, I took the decision unanimously as the leader of the support group since the decision of the court had not been made.”
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