The leadership crisis within the Labour Party took a new turn on Saturday as the 29-member caretaker committee, established by Abia State Governor Alex Otti and the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi, warned Julius Abure to stop presenting himself as the party’s national chairman.
In a statement issued in Abuja, the committee, led by Senator Nenadi Usman, declared that they remain in charge of the Labour Party’s affairs by virtue of the mandate entrusted to them by party stakeholders at an emergency convention.
This development comes less than 24 hours after Abure’s victory at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which validated the party’s March 2024 national convention in Nnewi, Anambra State, and confirmed him as the national chairman.
The court, presided over by Justice Hamma Barka, relied on a prior judgement delivered on November 13, 2024, in Appeal Number CA/Abj/CV/1172/2024 between the Labour Party…
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