Retract N30 Million Bribery Allegation Against LP Chairman Or We Meet In Court - Comr Kelly Ogbaloi Advises Ms Blessing Agho

By Simeon Osajie

The Edo State Labour Party (LP) Chairman, Comrade Kelly Ogbaloi has issued a 7 days ultimatum to one Ms. Blessing Agho who allegedly accused the National Chairman of Labour Party, Barrister Abure Julius of collecting N30 million from Hon. Elizabeth Ativie, former speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly.

Comrade Kelly Ogbaloi stated this in a statement signed and made available to Newsmen in Benin City.

According to him, it became necessary to issue the ultimatum after the leadership have carried out their internal investigations to be sure nothing of such took place.

"The write up was maliciously designed and sponsored by opposition parties to drag the party into the mud because of the party popularity in recent times ahead of the 2023 general election," he claimed.

He described the allegations as baseless and unfounded orchestrated by malicious individuals just to gain cheap political points.

"Ms. Blessing Agho has been maligning the name of ourNational Chairman, Barrister Abure Julius of collecting N30 Million from Hon. Elizabeth Ativie. But as a party that believe in the vision of a new Nigeria, we carried out our internal investigations and our  findings revealed the write up was coming from someone who was never a card carrying member of Labour Party.  She now felt that the best way to gain the sympathy of the general public is to chunk out unfounded reports and circulate it on social media."

Mr. Ogbaloi further emphasized that unless she withdraw such statement and tender an apology to the leadership of the  party, she would have multiple litigations bothering on defamation of character to battle with.

He however affirmed the party's position that Hon. Ativie Elizabeth as published by Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) remain the candidate of Labour Party in Orionmwon/Uhunmwonde federal constituency in the forthcoming 2023 National Assembly election.

He furthered called on Mr. Murphy Imasuen to remain a committed member of the party and place the party's interest above personal interest.

In a telephone call by The9JaTREND and her Facebook wall, Ms. Blessing Agho revealed that she no nothing about the alleged N30 Million bribery allegation against the Labour Party National Chairman.

According to her, "They are all over the place explaining the 30million allegations, they should ask Ikponmwosa Ogbonmwan where he got the information from. 

"I expect them by this time to come up with claims to back up their fraudulent act. 

"This is just the beginning. I have not started yet. Goan ask Oshiomhole about Blessing Agho. 

"Nonsense"