LP warns Peter Obi to keep away from embattled ex-chairman, Abure

The LP has warned their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the governor-elect of Abia State, Alex Otti, and legislators elected on the party’s platform to distance themselves from the suspended Nationwide Chairman of the party, Julius Abure. Continue Reading…

The warning was contained in a press release signed by the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the party, Abayomi Arabambi.

The assertion accused the Abure-led Nationwide Working Committee (NWC), in collaboration with non-members of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), together with Obi and Otti, of plotting to droop members of the NWC in a meeting scheduled to carry in Asaba on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

The Labour Party warned that such motion would quantity to contempt of courtroom, and all events concerned would possibly danger a jail time period, particularly when Abure and people to preside on the assembly have been restrained by courtroom and are at the moment dealing with prison costs.

Final week, the suspended Nationwide Chairman and his crew allegedly carried out a parallel screening for governorship candidates of the Labour Party from Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi States, regardless of a restraining order from an Abuja Excessive Court docket.

This transfer has raised issues throughout the get together and led to the warning issued by the Lamidi Apapa-led NWC.

The party said that Abure and his crew had gathered some senators-elect, House of Representatives members-elect of the Labour Party, who had not been inaugurated and have been additionally not members of NEC for the assembly.

The LP accused Abure and his crew of planning to take an unlawful choice in opposition to the get together’s structure.

The assertion additionally famous that holding a NEC assembly below the Abure management when the courtroom has restrained them from the function of the nationwide chairman and nationwide secretary would quantity to a direct affront and insult to the presiding Choose Hon Justice H MUAZU order as granted on the fifth day of April 2023.

The Labour Party believes that the rule of legislation ought to be upheld, particularly for individuals who bought their mandates on the belief of a brand new Nigeria of uprightness.

The party referred to as on its members to abide by the courtroom’s ruling and keep away from actions that might put them in contempt of courtroom.

The LP reiterated its dedication to upholding the tenets of democracy and the rule of legislation and urged its members to place the get together’s curiosity above private ambitions.

The party said that it might not hesitate to take disciplinary motion in opposition to any member discovered to be performing in opposition to the get together’s structure or flouting courtroom orders. Continue Reading…