The Edo chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has said that the suspension of the secretary of the party in Oredo Local Government Area Secretary, Mr Lawrence Okah, was not punitive.
Okah’s suspension was contained in a letter signed by Mr Anselm Ojezua, the state Chairman of the party and sighted by our correspondent, Friday in Benin.
He said the suspension followed complaints by members of the party in the local government, adding that the suspension was purely an administrative measure to allow investigation to into the complaints.
“He was just suspended to allow the committee set up to look at the complaints against him. We have not expelled him and the suspension is not punitive. It is just a normal administrative procedure,” he said.
When contacted, Okah confirmed the suspension, but said that the state chairman, going by the party’s constitution, had no power to suspend him.
Leaders and members of the APC in Ward 7 Oredo have been locked in fierce supremacy battle over the control of the party structure.
