Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha has refuted the claim that she is planning to cause leadership crisis in the House of Representatives.
Onyejeocha said this in a statement signed by her Chief Press Secretary, Gabriel Emameh on Monday in Abuja.
Emameh was reacting to a statement credited to one Abidemi Johnson, convener of Coalition of Asiwaju Progressive Women (CAPW).
Johnson had tagged Onyejeocha as ungrateful and plotting to cause a leadership crisis at the House of Representatives for undisclosed reasons.
The CAPW Convener alleged that the minister had doled out dollars to an unnamed group to launch a media campaign for her to unseat Abbas.
Onyejeocha who represented Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia at the House of Representatives, was appointed a minister after losing in the February 25 election.
But the Election Petition Tribunal had affirmed that she was the winner of the election, after sacking her opponent, Hon. Amobi Ogah of Labour Party (LP).
The minister said, “These are pointblank lies sponsored by my political enemies who have no line between darkness and light; morality or absurdity. This is indeed not only laughable but also calls for a thorough investigation.”
According to Emameh, “These baseless allegations did not by anyway come to us as surprise; we have had wind of several plots before hand to launch a media campaign against her, should the judgement at the tribunal turn out in her favour. That is the scenario being enacted in their desperation to pull her down.”
He said that she was focused on her national duties assigned to her by President Bola Tinubu at the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
“And also by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a co-chairman of the party’s national council for governorship election slated for November.
“Her loyalty to party is unquestionable,” Emameh said.