IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI FROM VANGUARD
ABUJA–A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, fixed May 12 to rule on a preliminary objection the embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Julius Abure, filed to challenge the competence of the suit seeking his removal from office.
Justice Hamza Muazu adjourned the matter for ruling, after he entertained arguments from Abure and other national leaders of the party, who contended that the lawsuit bordered on internal affairs of a political party.
The Defendants, through their team of lawyers led by Mr. Ben Nwosu, maintained that the court lacked the requisite jurisdiction to meddle in the matter which they described as non-justiceable.
It will be recalled that the court had in a ruling it delivered on April 5, restrained Mr. Abure from parading himself as the National Chairman of the LP.
The court equally barred Umar Farouk Ibrahim, Oluchi Opara and Clement Ojukwu, from further functioning as National Secretary, National Treasurer and National Organising Secretary of the party, restrictively, pending the determination of a suit before it.
The restraining order followed an ex-parte application that was brought before the court by…
