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The internal crisis rocking the Labour Party resurrected on Thursday with its National Legal Adviser, Akingbade Oyelekan, dismissing the dissolution of the party’s executive council in Rivers State.

According to him, the decision was faulty and would not stand.

The PUNCH reported that the spokesperson for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, had in a statement, dissolved the executive council of the Rivers State chapter of the party over alleged anti-party activities and corruption.

But Oyelekan told journalists in Abuja that Okonkwo was not a member of the party’s National Working Committee and does not have the powers to dissolve the party executives.

He said the process for announcing the dissolution of the River State executive was not in tandem with the constitution of LP.

Oyelekan also explained that Okonkwo was not the right person to issue such a statement, adding that only the National Secretary of the National Working Committee or National Publicity Secretary were constitutionally allowed to make such an announcement.

He said, “I want to make this clarification because it’s expedient and very important that we need this clarification so that we don’t continue to fall into error.