Obi Confirms Former Senate Minority Whip Nwokocha As Labour Party Secretary

Senate Minority Whip in the 10th Assembly Senator Darlington Nwokocha has emerged Secretary of a 29-member National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party (LP).

Nwokocha’s appointment was announced by Mr Peter Obi, the former Labour Party Presidential candidate following the party’s extended stakeholders meeting at the Banquet Hall of the Abia State Government House on Wednesday in Umuahia, the state capital.

The 29-member LP National Caretaker Committee is chaired by Senator Nenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance.

Nwokocha, representing Abia Central Senatorial District, was elected Senator on the Platform of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections.

Nwokocha was later elected the Minority Whip/Principal Officer of the 10th Senate and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on NDDC but left the Senate after six months o following the decision of the National Assembly Election Petitions Appeal Court.

The new LP Caretaker Secretary was in the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023 as the member representing Isiala Ngwa North/Isiala Ngwa South Federal Constituency, Abia State.

He served as Chairman, House Committee on Insurance and Actuarial Matters and was also the Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Federal Character Commission (FCC).

Nwokocha also served as Chairman of the Adhoc Committee on Niger-Delta Power Holding Limited; Adhoc Committee on Pipelines Explosion/Fire Outbreak in Rivers State and Chairman, of the Adhoc Committee on Failure of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Before his election to the House of Representatives, Nwokocha represented Isiala Ngwa South Constituency in the Abia House of Assembly from 2007 to 2015.