Court Upholds Abure's Position As LP Chairman And Halts Apapa-faction
A State High Court in Edo dismissed the notice of suspension against Julius Abure, the Labour Party's embattled national chairman, on Friday. The notice had been issued by certain party members at the ward level.
Justice Emmanuel Aihamoje, the court, dismissed the case on Friday because it lacked merit.
This was said in a statement that the party's acting national publicity secretary released on Friday in Abuja. Obiora Ifoh, who additionally stated that Abure and the executives of LP Ward 3 in Esan North East of Edo State filed the action.
Aihamoje ruled that the party ward executive in Uromi in ward 3 lacked the authority required by the Labour Party Constitution, in particular Acts 13 & 17 and the Electoral Act of 2022, as amended, to depose the party's national chairperson in his nearly two-hour-long decision.
In order to prevent Lamidi Apapa and his side from ousting or suspending Abure as the national chairman until a new national convention of the party is called, the judge in Suit No. HUC/21/2023 went ahead and issued a perpetual injunction.
Aihamoje added that the alleged Wards 3 executive's decision to suspend the party's national chairperson was made beyond the bounds of its authority under the Labour Party Constitution.
Thompson Ehiguese, the chairman of the Labour Party for Ward 3, responded to the decision by telling reporters present at the courthouse that it had put a stop to swindlers posing as Labour Party members in the ward.
He said, "These charlatans claiming to be members of our party are from Edo North and members of APC. I want to use this medium to congratulate the Labour Party and the Obidient Movement that stood firmly with Comrade Julius Abure while the sponsored crisis in our great party lasted.
"The judgement is explicitly clear that Barrister Julius Abure remains the national Chairman until the party convention holds next year. Nothing can change our collective resolve to reclaim Nigerian masses' mandate freely given to Mr Peter Obi and the party in the last presidential election.
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