LABOUR PARTY CANNOT SUSPEND ABURE AND OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS, ACCORDING TO THE COURT

On Wednesday, an Edo State High Court in Benin prevented the Labour Party and all of its members from suspending its national officers until the motion on notice was decided.

G. C. Igbokwe (SAN), a lawyer for the Labour Party, stated to press that he had obtained a High Court order directing the maintenance of the status quo and prohibiting any actions that would lead to the suspension of any national officers of the party.

"Our attention has been drawn to a latter order purportedly from another court of equal jurisdiction restraining my clients. Of course, such order is of no consequence and will have no effect until after the determination of the motion on notice," he said.

Recall that on Monday, the State, Local Government, and Ward executives of the Labour Party in the state of Edo, along with Abure, who had reportedly been suspended by a party faction, approved a vote of confidence in Abure.

The LP National Chairman had been suspended, according to some organizations claiming to be ward three executives of the party in Edo State, led by the ward's chairman, Martins Osigbemhe.

The chapters claimed, however, that the Osigbemhe group is unknowing to the party and is working for the opposing political parties during a solidarity visit to Abure at the party's national secretariat in Abuja.

Mr. Kelly Ogbaloi, the party's chairman for the state of Edo, told reporters that no group or member of the party has the authority to suspend a national officer under the party's constitution

Since Abure was chosen by a national convention, according to Ogbaloi, "imposters "who are not registered party members cannot suspend him, so their action is out of ignorance. Those who did it don't even understand the message they were asked to deliver."

No date has been fixed for hearing