The National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and three other national executive members, on Thursday, announced their return to the party secretariat.
The development is coming one month after
they were barred by Justice Hamza Muazu of Federal High Court in Abuja from
parading themselves as national officers of the party.
The judge ruled that Abure; his National
Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim; National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu
and one other, should no longer be given recognition as party executives.
The order was granted in an ex parte
application argued by Chief James Ogwu Onoja (SAN), in which he informed the
court the affected national officers allegedly forged several documents of the
FCT High Court to carry out unlawful substitutions in the recently-held 2023
general elections.
According to him, such documents included
receipts, seal and affidavits of the court, which he claimed the party
officials used to carry out criminal activities.
However, addressing journalists a press
conference in Abuja on Thursday, Abure announced the official return of all
suspended national executive members to the secretariat following motion for
stay at the Court of Appeal.
He dismissed reports that the Labour Party
has been factionalised, despite the fact that Bashiru Apapa had taken over as
acting National Chairman with Abure’s suspension.
Abure and Apapa factions clashed on Wednesday
at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja where the Labour Party and
its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, are challenging the emergence of Bola
Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25
presidential election.
Speaking on Thursday on his return, Abure
said, “It has become imperative for me to address this press conference to
properly put the legal issues surrounding the leadership of the party in proper
perspectives. It is pertinent to state categorically that Labour Party has no
faction. It has only one leadership and that leadership is the National Working
Committee led by myself, Barrister Julius Abure.”
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