Labour Party Diaspora Planning Committee to convene good-governance orientation for party’s elected officials  

Abuja, April 24, 2023:

The Labour Party (LP) national leadership recently approved a historic and innovative proposal by the LP Diaspora Committee to convene, the first of its kind in Nigeria, a diaspora retreat for over 100 newly elected officials (governor, senators, House of Representatives and states Assembly members) of the party.

The theme of the program, according to a statement by the Committee, is: “Harnessing the Gains of the Obedient Movement” and will cover topics such as “Impactful leadership and good governance,” “Building synergies for the new Nigeria of our dreams,” “People oriented programs in the parliamentary representation,” and “Lawmaking, constitution and democracy.”

To implement this program a 50-man planning committee has been inaugurated and will be Chaired and Co-Chaired by the Chairman of the Labour Party Diaspora Committee, Hon Chibuike  Amadichi and the Chairman Labour Party USA Chapter, Professor Eddie Oparaoji respectively, and the Secretary of the Committee is Mr. Marcel Ngogbehei.

In furtherance of this initiative, subcommittees such as the Finance Committee (Chairman, Prof Eddie Oparaoji); Programs (Chairman, Gabriel Inya-Agha); Logistics (Chairman, Njoku Cecelia) and Media (Chairman, Chief Patrick Eholor) were also constituted.

Hon Amadichi, during his welcoming remarks to the planning committee said, “this initiative is aimed at imparting the ideals of our principal Mr. Peter Obi and the policies of Labour Party in our elected officials at various levels of governance as well as creating a conduit for long term relationship and collaboration between our elected officials, the diaspora and Obidients.”