Labour Party’s (LP) leadership crisis escalated further yesterday with the Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa groups holding separate National National Working Committee (NWC) meetings in Abuja and Bauchi.
At the Abuja meeting, the Abure group warned that any elected member of the LP found to be in support of Apapa risked having his seat declared vacant. It added that other members that lend their loyalty to the suspended National Chairman(South) could be expelled.

But at the Bauchi NEC meeting, the Apapa group announced that it had pardoned LP’s Presidential candidate for the February 25 election, Peter Obi and his running-mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed for attending last month’s meeting of the NEC in Asaba, Delta State.

The LP leadership crisis broke out when the Federal High Court in Abuja barred the National Chairman (Abure) and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

Apapa assumed the role of Acting Chairman, pending when the order of the court would be vacated. The Abure – led NWC, however, refused to recognise the leadership of Apapa.

At the Abuja NEC parley yesterday, LP’s Deputy National Chairman Ladi Illiya, described the Bauchi meeting as fake and unconstitutional.

Illiya added that those behind the “contrived leadership rumblings” within the LP did not wish it well.

He said: “Those who are gathering in Bauchi in an attempt to hold a fake and unconstitutional National Executive Council(NEC) meeting do not represent our party.

“We held our authentic constitutionally approved NEC meeting in Asaba, Delta State about two weeks ago. At the meeting, we had all the state chairmen and secretaries from the 36 states as well as the Abuja chairman and secretary in attendance. , Who then are the NEC members in Bauchi?

“Anyone that joins them, we will declare their seat vacant. I have the backing of the NWC on that.”

LP’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, claimed that there were plans by “detractors” to continue to instigate crisis in the party.


He claimed that Apapa supporters have “been dangling carrots to “some of our leaders to either join them or be suspended.”

His words: “One of the lessons we learnt is that these agents of darkness can go all the way to destabilise a political party by infiltrating its leadership and planting moles who are of course, heavily compromised to ensure that the party loses focus.

“We urge the members of the public and our teaming supporters to continue to disregard the activities of Apapa and his cohorts, particularly the so-called NEC meeting in Bauchi.

“Today, all chairmen and secretaries, NWC members are here. So who are they meeting with in Bauchi? Their desperation and the haste to satisfy their paymasters are high.”

In Bauchi, the Apapa-led NEC said it had resolved to pardon Obi and Baba-Ahmed. It did not give a reason for the decision.

The pardon is part of a 19-point communique issued by Apapa and acting National Secretary Saleh Lawan.




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The forces against LP are too powerful. I doubt if LP and Peter Obi can withstand the storm they are currently facing.

divinehand2003:
The forces against LP are too powerful. I doubt if LP and Peter Obi can withstand the storm they are currently facing.

NEC meeting in Asaba
Another one in Bsuchi
LP is dead

See how men are compromised because of money.

Moferere:



NEC meeting in Asaba
Another one in Bsuchi
LP is dead

You wish!

I thought you guys were rejoicing that Apapa would withdraw LP case from court, why hasn’t he withdrawn it?

Dem no born am well to try nonsense.

Meanwhile, Julius Abure is LP National Chairman. Any other character claiming anything is a meddlesome interloper that would be dispensed with in time.

Penguin2:


You wish!

I thought you guys were rejoicing that Apapa would withdraw LP case from court, why hasn’t he withdrawn it?

Dem no born am well to try nonsense.

Meanwhile, Julius Abure is LP National Chairman. Any other character claiming anything is a meddlesome interloper that would be dispensed with in time.

Absolutely!

LP is in the eye of the storm at present. The party is weak and not cohesive. Her members are in for the money and are easily fallible.

Moferere:



NEC meeting in Asaba
Another one in Bsuchi
LP is dead

There is division already...Instead of the elected candidates to align with Apapa or that suspended chairman, they will just decamp.

Party of forgers

Shey na this same bst wey dem suspend be this

The bst don even dey enter private jet

Anyway enjoy Tinubu money while you can

Mtchew..

They’re not fools. Abure has been sacked! Apapa remains the only legal Lp chairman..

Alignment with the herbalist is an alignment with the druggie.

According to Abure faction the party have the right to declare an elected seat vacant?
Instead of them to find a common solution to the minor issues they’re having, ego equal not let them.
It is the just concluded primaries that will prove which is the authentic faction.

Super story

Joke of a political party.

Obi divides anything he touches.

He touched Anambra politics and he turned it to Catholics vs Anglicans.

He touched Labour party and divided it into 2 factions.

He touched the election campaign and turned it to a Religious war between Christians and Muslims.

divinehand2003:
The forces against LP are too powerful. I doubt if LP and Peter Obi can withstand the storm they are currently facing.

Even me can withstand it talk more of LP as a party. All these are just minor sponsored division by some opposition governors. And they know how to tackle it. During the election period. They called my committee and gave them like #500k for answering their call. When they noticed that the chairman and some excos ain't buying into their idea. I was sleeping when they called me. That was when I knew that both PDP and APC can join together to plan against one person. They told me and my guy to hijack the committee, that they will support us fully. Said they will give us #3m for sponsorship. After much argument , they promised us #5m to share 2m each and use 1m for other arrangements. Omoh, I went home and thought about it for long. It didn't work. I had to leave and blocked their numbers.....


So, this is what they do, just get somebody that will do some dirty games for you and destroy an organization, that's how all these parties do their work. Even LP too

Both PDP and APC are against LP.

APC want to destroy LP so as to scuttle the presidential election petition at the tribunal.

PDP want to destroy LP so that Obi and others will return to PDP and make the party strong for 2027 election.

Both of them will fail.

By the time Peter Obi finally leave, all of una for LP will finally get sense.

Jogs1900:

There is division already...Instead of the elected candidates to align with Apapa or that suspended chairman, they will just decamp.

Party of forgers

Anyone who decamps is on a path to political oblivion.

Short and simple

ba7man:
Obi divides anything he touches.

He touched Anambra politics and he turned it to Catholics vs Anglicans.

He touched Labour party and divided it into 2 factions.

He touched the election campaign and turned it to a Religious war between Christians and Muslims.

And you think Labour party's crisis just started today? Lemme ask you a question. In 2022 after the presidential primaries in Asaba which produced PO as the standard bearer, are you saying you didn't read of a parallel primaries which produced another presidential candidate?

LP has been in the midst of leadership tussle since 2020 when Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, the former national chairman died.

Hpesoj:



And you think Labour party's crisis just started today? Lemme ask you a question. In 2022 after the presidential primaries in Asaba which produced PO as the standard bearer, are you saying you didn't read of a parallel primaries which produced another presidential candidate?

LP has been in the midst of leadership tussle since 2020 when Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, the former national chairman died.

It was on before he even died.

seanfer:
According to Abure faction the party have the right to declare an elected seat vacant?

Instead of them to find a common solution to the minor issues they’re having, ego equal not let them.

It's past the Rubicon, no way back. One must give way for the other.

It is the just concluded primaries that will prove which is the authentic faction.

Unless there is a Court order which will be upturned going up, INEC will accept Candidates from the Abure-faction.

Game of thrones

The pardoned...the threatened....watchout for the revenge

LP is gone

Omorr.

Tinubu is doing everything possible to scatter labor party by using the moles he planted there to cause chaos. But he will fail.

fergie001:
It was on before he even died.

It's past the Rubicon, no way back. One must give way for the other.

Unless there is a Court order which will be upturned going up, INEC will accept Candidates from the Abure-faction.

The FCT high court order of 5th April has not been set aside and that is what will not make INEC to recognize the Abure faction.

The division in the party has given a valid ground for any defection.

They can go to APC.

abeg where is Omoyele

seanfer:
The FCT high court order of 5th April has not been set aside and that is what will not make INEC to recognize the Abure faction.

I have explained this many times, NEC supercedes the NWC or even the National Chairman himself.

Only the National Convention supercedes NEC. It has held in Asaba and decisions have been taken. INEC was even present and that is what INEC will stick to wrt Governorship Candidates.

The FCT High Court did not determine who will be Chair, it only restrained the National Chairman.