The affairs of the Labour Party (LP) have been taken over by some members of the National Working Committee, led by the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South), Lamidi Apapa.

This development took place in Abuja during an emergency meeting of the LP National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday, following a court judgment restraining Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

Lamidi stated that he is now the Acting National Chairman of the party, while Saleh Lawan is the Acting National Secretary. According to him, Abure and the three others must vacate the order of the Federal High Court retraining them before further action can be taken on the leadership of the party.

The emergency NWC meeting also reinstated Executive Council members from Ogun State, Rivers State, and Gombe State. During the meeting, Lamidi also reversed the suspension of Eragbe Anslem as the National Youth Leader and Yomi Arabambi as the National Publicity Secretary.

However, Abure has dismissed the move, calling it “illegitimate” and a ploy by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to destabilise the party.

In a statement on Thursday, he stated that a court of competent jurisdiction only recently ordered that he remains the National Chairman and should not be restrained from performing his duties.