The embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has rejected his alleged ouster by an Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
VOP News understands that the Court of Appeal, which sat in Abuja owing to security concerns, invalidated all the off-season governorship primary elections conducted by the National Chairman of the party, JULIUS ABURE.
The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately recognise and publish the names of all the governorship candidates in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states produced by the Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee.
Speaking to journalists, Apapa insisted that the court ruling had reaffirmed that Abure was not the authentic party chairman of the party when the primaries were conducted.
He said, “The Edo State matter more or less has to do with civil matters. The Excos in Edo suspended him, and they went to court because of that, and they don’t have the right to suspend him. I’m talking about the ward level.
Responding, Abure described reports of his removal by the Appeal Court as fake news.
He said and quote “It is nothing but fake news. Let me send you our official reaction to the report. Senator Athan Achonu is our candidate. The lower court said it has no jurisdiction to look at the case ab initio and that the status quo should remain.
Also, the LP National Secretary, Umar Farouk, disclosed that Abure was not mentioned in the ruling passed by the appellate court.
Farouk said and I read “That report was wrong. There was nowhere in the ruling where Abure was mentioned. Nothing was in the judgment. Somebody somewhere just twisted the judgment. It is wrong.”
