By A’Court Reinstates Apapa as LP National Chairman
Lamido Apapa has been reinstated the new national chairman of the Labour Party by the Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, replacing Julius Abure.
The court also mandated that all governorship candidates in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states who had been developed by the Apapa-led National Working Committee be recognised and made public right away.
Athan Achonu, a senator from Imo State, and other members of the Abure-led LP faction had their bids for governor rejected by the court as well.
Apapa claimed in April that his expulsion from the party was erroneous and that he was still the ‘legal acting chairman.’
The PUNCH reported on August 14 that Abure had been confirmed as the National Chairman of the Labour Party by a Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, the capital of Edo State. Obiora Ifoh, the party’s national publicity secretary, revealed this in a statement.
Prior to this, on May 26, The PUNCH reported that an Edo-based State High Court had denied the notice of suspension that some party members at the ward level had issued against Abure. Justice Emmanuel Aihamoje, the judge, dismissed the case for lack of merit.
