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THE LABOUR PARTY CHAIRMAN, JULIUS ABURE IS NOW RE-ELECTED AS THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, DESPITE RESISTANCE FROM THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS((NLC). HE WAS RETURNED UNOPPOSE IN NNEWI BY THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF ABIA STATE. JULIUS ABURE WENT INTO TROUBLE WATER, WHEN HE WAS ACCUSED OF FINANCIAL RASCALITY AND MANY PEOPLE CALLED FOR HIS HEAD WHILE OTHERS CAME FOR HIS SEAT. LAST WEEK, THE NLC PICKETED ALL THE OFFICES OF THE LABOUR PARTY, CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION OF JULIUS ABURE. READ THE FULL TEXT BELOW.
Julius Abure has been re-elected as the new chairman of the LABOUR PARTY. The Chairman of the National Convention and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Mr. Ikechukwu Emetu declared him the winner during the party’s national convention that was held in Nnewi, Anambra State.
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A battle for supremacy has been going on between Abure and NLC leader Ajaero. The Labour Party chairman is ABURE.
The NLC had earlier demanded that Abure step down as party chairman and that a caretaker transition committee be established to plan the party’s “legal and inclusive national convention.”
On Wednesday, March 20, workers were prevented from accessing the party headquarters in Abuja.
The workers gathered outside the premises, chanting anti-party songs and calling for the chairman’s resignation, whom they accused of financial misconduct.
The leadership crisis assumed a new dimension after Ajaero was accused by the party’s National Working Committee of trying to unseat Abure.
In the letter by the NLC, Abure and the NWC were accused of proposing a “secret” national convention in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, on March 27 that would re-elect Abure to continue leading the Labour Party as a “sole administrator.”
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The letter was jointly signed by the NLC political commission’s chairman, Titus Amba, and secretary, Chris Uyot.
The LP’s national publicity secretary, Obiora Ifoh, responded to the NLC in a statement titled “Resign as NLC President to Contest LP Chairmanship, Labour Party advises Ajero.”
In the response, the LP said the party’s leadership would not accept orders from unionists who do not possess party membership cards.
THE Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Wednesday, March 6, affirmed Abure as the LP national chairman.
A Justice at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Hamza Muazu, had, in 2023, granted an ex-parte order, ordering that Abure and two other national officers stop parading themselves as leaders of the party for allegedly forging national documents.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had refused to restrain Abure from conducting the party’s national convention earlier on Wednesday.
The judge gave the ruling in a suit filed by a party member, Chief Chidozie Ezeugwa, and three others.
In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/383/2024, the plaintiffs urged the court to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining the respondents from conducting the LP convention, among other reliefs.
In his ruling, Ekwo ordered the plaintiff to put all the respondents on notice of the ex-parte application moved by his lawyer, Ammeh Ammeh.
Meanwhile, a factional chairman of the Labour Party in Anambra State, Mr Peter Okoye has boasted that the Nnewi national convention will not stand.
Describing the convention as a sham, Okoye said: “This is not a convention. We are on top of the matter. It’s purely illegal. Julius Abure is now the chairman.
“There was no ward congress, no local government congress, no state congress, and now who and who are the elected the delegates that are electing the National Working Committee, NWC, members?
“The NLC was not there, TUC was not there, the owners of the party and members of the NEC and BOT members were not there too. So, who is holding the convention?”
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