OBI CAMPAIGN DG BLAMES JUDICIARY FOR LABOUR PARTY CRISIS

The Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has blamed the judiciary for the crisis rocking the party after the 2023 general elections.

He said that the judgement by Justice Hamza Muazu of a Federal Capital Territory High Court ordering the party’s Chairman, Julius Abure and other national executives of the party to stop parading themselves as national officers of the party created the crisis currently engulfing the party.

Speaking during a TV interview today, the LP campaign DG further stated that a sitting judge gave a judgement that the chairman should no longer parade himself as a chairman, thereby causing the crisis rocking the party.

Osuntokun maintained that the judge had the option of allowing the chairman of the party remain in his position and go on with the case, but he rather chose an option showing that he was “setting the party up for crisis.”

Justice Muazu had on April 5 issued the restraining order to the LP national officers while ruling in ex-parte application.

Following the Abuja court judgement, the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South), Lamidi Apapa, declared himself the acting Chairman of the party