PEOPLES GAZETTE
Lamidi Apapa, the acting national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), has prayed the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to compel the Inspector-General of Police to eject the party’s embattled national chairman, Julius Abure, from its party’s national secretariat.
In a fresh suit filed before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, Mr Apapa also sought a perpetual injunction restraining Mr Abure and three other suspended national officers from further representing or parading themselves as national chairman and officers of the party.
Mr Apapa; Lawal Saleh, acting national secretary; Anslem Eragbe, national youth leader and LP are the first to fourth plaintiffs in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/777/23 and filed by their lawyer, Anderson Asamota.
The plaintiffs had sued Mr Abure as suspended national chairman; Farouk Umaru, suspended national secretary; Ojukwu Clement, suspended organising secretary; Oluci Opara, suspended national treasurer and IGP as first to fifth defendants, respectively.
In the latest case dated June 1, the plaintiffs sought nine reliefs which include “an order setting aside or nullifying all steps or proceedings conducted by the first to fourth defendants, actions or decisions taken, documents or correspondences prepared, authored, signed and issued by them, after they were restrained by the FCT High Court on April 5 and suspended by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party on May 3, 2023.
“An order of mandatory injunction directing or compelling the 1st to 4th defendants, whether acting by themselves or through their officers, privies, representatives, attorneys and/or agents, to render account of all monies or funds received by them through gift, donations, contributions for and on behalf of the party and return or refund all the monies or gift received by them for and on behalf of the party.”
The plaintiff, who prayed the court to eject Mr Abure and the three co-defendants from the party’s national secretariat at No. 2, IBM Haruna Street, Utako, Abuja, described them as “illegal occupants.”
They sought a declaration that by virtue of Articles 13 (2)(B)(xvii), 17(ii), and 19(2) (C) & (3)C of the constitution of the Labour Party, 2019 (as amended), the NEC of the LP is empowered and/or inundated with powers to take disciplinary action or discipline the erring members and national officers…
