Lamidi Apapa, the Deputy National Chairperson of the Labour Party (South), has led some other members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to assume party leadership.
Apapa stated during an emergency meeting of the Labour Party National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday that his actions are in accordance with a recent court decision that removed Julius Abure as the LP National Chairman.
In announcing himself as the Labour Party’s Acting National Chairman, Apapa also stated that Saleh Lawan is the party’s Acting National Secretary.
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He claimed that before the party can take any additional move, the Federal High Court ruling prohibiting Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the Labour Party must first evacuated.
The Executive Council members from Ogun, Rivers, and Gombe states were reinstated during the emergency NWC meeting presided over by Apapa.
The suspensions of National Youth Leader Eragbe Anslem and National Publicity Secretary Yomi Arabambi were also lifted.
According to reports, two courts have delivered contradicting rulings on the dismissal of Labour Party national officials (LP).
Newsmen recalls that on Wednesday, Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) restrained the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure; National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim; National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu, and one other from parading themselves as party national officers.
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Judge Muazu issued the restraining order after hearing an ex-parte motion from Chief James Onoja (SAN).
Martins John, Lucky Shaibu, Isah Zekeri, Omogbai Frank, Abokhaiu Aliu, Ayohkaire Lateef, Job Elomah, and Abayomi Arabambi are the plaintiffs in the CV/2930/2023 litigation.
In an unexpected turn of events, a state High Court in Benin reportedly stopped the party from suspending its national officers until the move on notice was decided.
Umar Farouk, the LP’s National Secretary, announced this in a statement on Wednesday.
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