The Labour Party (LP), yesterday, received former Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governorship aspirant, Ken Imansuangbon, into its fold amidst jubilation.
Imansuangbon, on Tuesday, announced he resigned his membership of the party, in a letter to the Edo State chairman of the PDP, with his party’s ward chairman in Esan South East Local Council copied.
The Edo politician in company of his wife, Mrs. Kate Imansuangbon and supporters stormed the secretariat of the Labour Party where he was received by the party’s leadership.
Imansugbon, who was received into the party by the Julius Abure’s led executives of the Labour Party, showered praises on the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his vice, Ahmed Datti, for championing the course of new and better Nigeria, noting that they remain president and vice in the minds and hearts of Nigerians.
He said that the LP has come to stay and will continue to give fresh hope and leadership to Nigerians whom he noted have been pauperised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP.
“My political history is well known. I ran to PDP little did I know that I was running from frying pan to fire. PDP and APC are birds of the same feather; they don’t love Nigerians but their pockets.
“I must also thank the youths of Nigerians who supported the Labour Party for what I failed to see in the Obidient and Datti movement. Today, we know who the president is and he is in the minds of Nigerians. The world is watching the courts to see what they will do. This is the party for the Nigerian people, students and the very weak.” He assured the leadership of the party that more people in Edo State are ready in the 192 political wards to join the Labour Party.
The party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, while welcoming Imansuangbon into the party, called on those who are still sitting on the fence to join the Labour Party now in the movement to rescue Nigeria.