The Lamidi Apapa-led group of the Labour Party (LP) has come under fire from Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, for their intentions to hold primary elections for governorship in Edo State.
Abure maintained that he is still the legitimate national chairman of the LP, citing all court rulings on the party’s leadership issue across the nation.
Speaking to journalists yesterday in Benin, Abure insisted that issues bordering on factions in the party have been laid to rest by the judgment of the Supreme Court which states that Apapa lacked the locus to act on behalf of the party, including throwing up candidates for election.
Abure was responding to some issues raised by Abayomi Arabambi, spokesman of the Apapa-faction, in his recent interview with the Channels Television on the crisis in the party.
According to Abure, “if we single out the case in FCT, the case in FCT was an interim order and based on the rules of the FCT High Court, that court order no longer has life after seven days. In the instance case, it has lapsed except it is extended or renewed and it is not to our knowledge that it is renewed.
You must also note that the FCT High Court itself by Justice Muazu has stayed the proceedings and the order since their appeal has been entered in the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal has equally also stayed the order and the proceedings in the FCT High Court pending the hearing and determination of a matter at the Court of Appeal.”
