Anastasia Okechukwu
The National Working Committee of the Labour Party (LP) has appointed the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa as the acting Chairman.
The development took place in Abuja on Thursday during an emergency meeting of the LP National Working Committee (NWC), held at the party secretariat. This was after a court judgment restraining Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
Speaking to Journalist after the emergency meeting, Apapa stated that the seven members of the NWC acted on the judgement of the court.
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.
He noted that the NWC members did review the suspensions of the party members, and exco that had been suspended earlier by the party leadership.
However, the three other officials that were suspended were also replaced by Alhaji Saleh Lawal – acting National Secretary, Rowland Daramola – acting Treasurer, and Prince Reuben Favour – acting Organising Secretary.
Apapa said: “The NWC equally reviewed that recently there are some cases of suspensions that were badly handled. And this National Working Committee meeting has reviewed them, and the suspension all over are hereby reviewed and the officers are reinstated.”
“With effect from now, the so-called officers who the court had barred should not parade themselves as officers of the party until cases against them are treated or handled by the party.”