The Labour Party (LP) has been thrown into a leadership crisis after a recent court ruling that sacked the Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
According to National Vice Chairman (South), Lamidi Bashir Apapa, he has taken over as the acting National Chairman of the party, following his appointment by the NWC of the LP, consequent upon the suspension of Julius Abure and five others.
The NWC acted on the judgement of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, which restrained Abure from parading himself as the Party’s National Chairman.
The presiding judge, Justice Hamza Muazu, granted an ex parte application for an interim injunction restraining Abure, the National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, the National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, and the National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu.
Apapa explained that the NWC also reviewed the suspension of party members and exco earlier suspended by the party leadership.
The three other officials restrained were also replaced by Asaleh Lawal, Rawland Daramola, and Prince Reuben Favour.
He further stated that “the NWC equally reviewed that recently there are some cases of suspensions that were badly handled. And the National Working Committee meeting has reviewed them, and the suspension is hereby reviewed and the officers are reinstated.”
However, the sacked National Chairman, Julius Abure, accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of using thugs and police to invade the party’s headquarters in Abuja.
He claimed that the invaders, who were armed, pulled down the fences, burglaries, doors, and windows to gain access to the Secretariat and in the process sacked workers and party members who were present.
Abure further alleged that the incident was part of a plot by the APC to hound the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, out of the country.
He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the APC to order and rein them in from using unorthodox means to suffocate political structures in Nigeria.
In response to Abure’s allegations, Apapa denied that the party had been invaded by the APC, stating that the current leadership believes extensively in the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi.
Apapa also clarified that “the so-called officers whose the court had barred should not parade themselves as officers of the party until cases against them are treated or handled by the party.”
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