LP Crisis: Apapa Faction Insists Abure Remains Suspended

Labour Party National working committee led by acting national chairman, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, has said that the national chairman of the LP, Barr Julius Abure, remained suspended.

In a press statement credited to personal assistance to Abure and restrained former national chairman of Labour Party Julius Abure, claiming that an Edo State High Court has restored Julius Abure back as national chairman is unacceptable, insisting that he remain suspended.

Speaking at a press conference at the weekend, the national publicity secretary of the Apapa faction, Dr Abayomi Arabambi said the Labour party wouldn’t have dignified what he described as “beer parlour response lace with deliberate falsehood or considered it necessary to react to such distortion of facts.

“We just received judgment of the Edo State High Court today in which the court set aside the suspension of Julius Abure as a member of its ward pursuant to Article 10 (2)(I) of the Labour Party constitution by the ward executive.

“The effect of this judgment would have just merely restored Abure’s membership of the party since he is still restrained from parading himself as National officer of the party.

“Unfortunately, NEC, which is the highest organ of the party, in its meeting held in Bauchi on the 3rd of May, 2023, further suspended Abure and some others members of the party for attending an illegal NEC meeting purportedly called by Julius Abure while the restraining order of the FCT High was still subsisting.

“The implication of the suspension of Abure by NEC in Bauchi makes today’s judgment a mere academic exercise as NEC, which is the highest Order of the party, had already suspended Abure and his cohorts. Simply put, by virtue of the restraining Order of the FCT High Court which is yet to be vacated or set aside, Abure still remains restrained,” he said.