Dr. Joseph Mills Jones, the standard bearer and political leader of the Movement for Economic Empowerment was on Tuesday, Dec. 5, suspended indefinitely by the party’s Executive Committee. The statement said the Executive Committee suspended Dr. Jones as standard-bearer and political leader of the party with immediate effect, pending conclusive investigations into the matter in seventy-two hours. He added that Dr. Jones refused to submit to the committee and therefore, the Executive Committee of the party took a decision to suspend him for time indefinitely. Dr. Jones, as the standard bearer of MOVEE, contested in the October 10 Presidential and Legislative elections and accumulated 12,854 votes (0.8 percent). It may be recalled that on Dec. 3, Dr. Jones was reported to have violated the MOVEE’s, Article XV.

Source: Daily Observer December 06, 2017 02:48 UTC