Following his assertion that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has the qualifications to lead Nigeria, the factional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Bashir Apapa, caught many by surprise on Tuesday.
News organizations learned that Apapa also ruled the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting illegitimate.
Apapa claims that Julius Abure’s participation in the conference demonstrates his disobedience of the Federal High Court’s order in Abuja.
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The National Chairman of the Party, Julius Abure, and three other people were prohibited from impersonating Party officials by a court order.
The Apapa faction pointed out that it has access to an invitation letter from Abure to the LP’s NEC meeting in Asaba and asserted that he lacks the necessary authority due to the court’s restraining order.
The statement released Apapa faction reads: “that following the anti-party activities and disobedience to court order of the FCT High Court through the illegal suspension and expulsion of national working committee members under the leadership of Alh. Bashiru Lamidi Apapa, the NWC members meet this afternoon, after receiving information and letter by the restrained former national chairman Julius Abure and Former National Secretary inviting elected members of national assembly to observe their illegal NEC meeting of our party.
“By this rascality exhibited by these miscreants, the national working committee of our party led by Alhaji Lamidi Apapa hereby, suspend the following officers with immediate effects;
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Ladi Iliya Deputy National Chairman NLC, Ayo Olorunfemi, Deputy National Chairman TUC, Kennedy Chigozie Ahanotu, Deputy National Secretary, Dudu Manuga, National Women Leader and Innocent Okeke. National Vice Chairman South East.”
The statement signed by Arabambi stated that “the party also frowns at the gross misconduct of Mr Peter Obi who is vigorously pursuing ethnic cleansing.
“Peter Obi’s mission was to amputate the Labour party structure so that he and his gang of ethnic bigots would take over the party and fix his wife as the new national women leader of the party to continue his trade.
“We want the world to know that Peter Obi was not properly nominated as our party flag bearer which we pointed out to him and the reason he wanted all of us opposed to his illegal candidacy out by all means.
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“Peter Obi is not fit to govern Nigeria for his involvement in the gross disobedience to the FCT high court order as this is an evidence that he will cause civil unrest , turn nigeria to banana republic and lawlessness where rule of law will be a thing of the past.
“Finally the national working committee of our party hereby dissolved the presidential campaign council with immediate effect.”
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