August 24, (THEWILL) – The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure and recognised Lamido Apapa, as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to publish the names of all the governorship candidates presented by the Apapa-led faction of the LP for the November 11 gubernatorial election in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa States.
THEWILL recalls that the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Monday, August 14, affirmed Comrade Julius Abure as the National Chairman of Labour Party (LP).
In a unanimous judgement by Justices Theresa Ngolika Orji Abadua, Fatima Omoro Akinbami and Justice Sybil O. Nwaka-Gbagi, the court dismissed the appeal marked No: CA/B/93/2023, filed by LP’s chieftain, Lucky Shaibu, against Abure and five others.
The court also nullified the earlier suspension and all actions taken against Com. Abure and the party, arising from his purported suspension.
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