Yenagoa, Bayelsa state – Udengs Eradiri, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Bayelsa state election, has announced his resignation from the party.
Eradiri’s running mate, Commodore Benjamin Nathus (retd), also dumped the LP. The LP is the party of Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi.
TimesNow.com.ng reports that Eradiri’s defection comes a week after five federal lawmakers dumped the LP for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It was gathered that most of the local government chairmen of the party in Bayelsa joined Eradiri and Nathus to dump the party.
Eradiri sent his resignation letter to the LP state chairman in Yenagoa, the state’s capital.
In the letter dated Sunday, December 8, and titled ‘Letter of Withdrawal as Labour Party member’, Eradiri stated that he took the decision to enable him to pursue his political career on a platform prepared “to provide the kind of leadership that Bayelsa deserves”.
He said:
Furthermore, Eradiri, who came third in the 2023 governorship poll, said his decision was supported by his loyalists.
The ex-Ijaw youths leader added:
Read Eradiri’s letter of withdrawal as LP member below:
Earlier, TimesNow.com.ng reported that the Bayelsa government announced that workers at the local government level will be paid N80,000 minimum wage under the unified local government scheme.
The resolution was reached at a meeting between the state government, labour leader, and council chairmen. It came after the state government approved the N80,000 minimum wage for workers in the state.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
