Callistus Okafor, national factional chair of the Labour Party (LP) has knocked Julius Abure for holding a national working committee (NWC) meeting.
Callistus Okafor, national factional chair of the Labour Party has berated Julius Abure for holding a national working committee meeting.In the communique, Abure said Alex Otti, governor of Abia, called for an emergency national executive committee meeting to dissolve the highest organ of the party, state executive council, local government executive council and ward executive council on grounds that the tenures of the executives had expired.
However, in a statement, Okafor said the NWC meeting presided by Abure was illegal because his tenure expired on June 9, 2024. “INEC is said to have rejected the leadership of Julius Abure following the recent crisis in the party,” he said.In 2018, Gabriel Kolawole, an Abuja federal high court judge handling the dispute, delivered a consent judgment that compelled all parties to convene an “inclusive” national convention.The verdict followed a leadership tussle between late Abdulkadir Salam, a former chairman of LP, and a group led by Salisu Mohammed, who had declared himself the national caretaker chair of the party.
Okafor, who has argued that he is a “beneficiary” of the judgment, was deputy chair to Salam at the time.EXTRA: ‘I’m not as short as you think’ — Obasanjo jokes at Raila Odinga’s campaign launch for AUC chair
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