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Labour Party: Apapa Makes Fresh Announcement After Appeal Court Ruling

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Lamidi Apapa, on Thursday made a fresh declaration hours after a judgement by the Court of Appeal affirmed him as the authentic National chairman of the Labour Party (LP).

This online media platform reported earlier that the Court of Appeal on Thursday (today) sacked the Julius Abure-led faction and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize governorship candidates produced by Apapa’s faction for the elections scheduled for November 11, 2023.

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Speaking during a press conference in Abuja shortly after the court’s declaration, Apapa declared that only candidates endorsed by him can feature in the November 11 Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo governorship elections.

He said: “You will recall that on April 5, the FCT High Court restrained Abure and others from parading themselves as national officers of the party. As a result, the party appointed the Deputy National Chairman, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, as the acting national chairman of the party pursuant to its constitution.

“Sequel to that, the party under my leadership wrote to INEC changing its date of primary election earlier scheduled by Abure from April 15 to April 16. Notwithstanding the fact that he was under a restraining order, Abure still went ahead to conduct his primaries for Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa on those dates.”

Apapa explained further that his faction conducted primaries on April 16, making it two primaries conducted by the LP in the states.

“Peeved by the primary conducted by me, a candidate who participated in the Abure primary took my candidate to court whilst maintaining that Abure’s candidates were the authentic ones. The case was frantically defended, and the Federal High court, Owerri Division, declared the primaries conducted by me as the authentic candidate as Abure was under a restraining order as at the time he screened candidates and conducted his primaries,” he said.

Apapa said the court recognised him as the authentic Chairman of the party.

He said that dissatisfied with the FHC judgment, Abure’s candidates, including the winner of his primaries, appealed against the judgment to the Court of Appeal.

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He said the court of appeal had also affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court that Abure’s conduct was contemptuous as he was under a restraining order when he conducted the said primaries.

“That restraining order is still in force even at the time this judgment was delivered,’’ Apapa stressed.

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