The embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has accused Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo of embezzling the party’s 2023 campaign funds.
Abure, made the allegation recently following rumours that he mismanaged the party’s funds.
He said; “Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo were signatories to LP 2023 campaign funds and not the party as widely speculated.”
“The party was never involved in the distribution of those resources. Our interest was to see how we could produce a president for the party. How it was done was not our concern.”
“Hence, we gave them free rein. We allowed them to entrust their resources to whomever they wanted. We followed them loyally by allowing them to administer the campaign funds.”
“Regarding donations, the party was not involved in collecting any campaign donations; they were channelled to accounts opened for campaign purposes, with Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo as the signatories.”
“They were also responsible for payments to polling unit agents. The party did not handle the payments to the agents.”
