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NLC Kicks Against Abure’s Move to Conduct LP Convention

POSTED ON July 16, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey
National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure/ Photo credit: Punch

The Transition Committee set up by the Nigeria Labour Congress to oversee the national and state congresses of the Labour Party has warned members of the party not to participate in the planned congress by embattled National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure.

The committee also opposed Abure's move to hold a separate convention as disobedience to a court order.

The Chairman, Sub-committee on Media & Publicity, Tony Akeni, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen.

The NLC has been pushing for the removal of Abure as the LP National Chairman, declaring a convention that returned him as the party’s chairman as illegal.

The action had compelled the NLC Political Commission to void the new leadership and set up a transition committee saddled with the task of engaging stakeholders of the party to conduct a fresh convention in 90 days.

The Transition Committee Chairman, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, had disclosed that following the resolution of the stakeholders meeting on May 8, the NTC would unveil plans for the party’s national convention.

Reacting to the call for a fresh congress by the Abure’s faction, Akeni said the call was illegal and in violation of the constitutional regulations of political parties in Nigeria.

He said, “Julius Abure and his INEC-discredited Nnewi convention in Anambra, Imo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Ondo, Kaduna, Adamawa and other states are acts of broad-day fraud, disobedience to an irrevocable court judgment, the Nigeria Electoral Act, the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Nigeria constitution which establishes and regulates the affairs of political parties.

“Consequently, the Labour Party National Transition Committee hereby warns members of the general public who have bought or intended to buy Abure’s illegal congress forms, shall be doing so at their own risk and in vain.”

Akeni vowed that the party would not hesitate to take action against violators and participants of the Abure’s congress.

“There shall be severe consequences for violators, organizers and participants alike. Therefore, do not participate in their foul play but wait for the lawful timetable of our party for state congresses and National Convention which the Labour Party National Transition Committee shall roll out and announce soon,” Akeni said.

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