Julius Abure has been advised by the Labour Party, LP, Caretaker Committee in Abuja to cease representing himself as the party’s national chairman, as his term ended on June 9.
Salisu Mohammed, the party’s secretary of the board of trustees, made this statement at a press conference held in Abuja by the Labour National Transitional Committee (NTC) leadership.
He added that the decision made by the Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee at the Umuahia stakeholder meeting was legal and legitimate.
According to Mohammed, the NTC worked with and organized all pertinent parties to make sure the party moved past what it considered to be Abure’s corruption and lawlessness.
He said that Abure had run the party without holding elections since taking over as national chairman in 2000, the year of the abrupt death of the previous chairman, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam.
‘In fact, INEC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, had asked him to vacate the chair meant for the Chairman of the Labour Party.
“These interventions by the NTC have culminated in the meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Labour Party in Umuahia.
“The National Transitional Committee, NTC facilitated by the Nigerian Labour Congress as the Trustee of the Labour Party fully accepts and commends the decision of the NEC of the Labour Party at its meeting on September 4, 2024.
“We support the 29-man Caretaker Committee to prepare and conduct democratic congresses to elected party leadership at the Ward, LGA, State and National levels’’, he said.
He said that the NEC, which Governor Alex Otti of Abia organized, is the much-needed intervention required to salvage the party from what he called illegalities.
