Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, sacked Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
Lifu, in his judgment, said he relied on the April 4, 2025, verdict of the Supreme Court to declare a former Minister of Finance, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, as the valid leader of the party.
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Consequently, the court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to forthwith, recognize the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee as “the only valid authority to represent the Labour Party,” pending when the party convenes a national convention.
The judgement followed a suit marked: THC/ABJ/CS/2262/2025, which the former minister lodged before the court.
Aside from Abure, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) was also cited as a defendant in the matter.
Justice Lifu held that evidence before him established that Abure’s tenure as the national chairman of the LP had since elapsed.
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While dismissing Abure’s contention that the matter was an internal affair of a political party that is non-justiceable, the court held that the setting up of the LP Caretaker Committee was “a necessity” that arose from the order of the Supreme Court.
After the tenure of Abure lapsed, the National Executive Committee of the party set up a caretaker committee with Usman as the chairman.
The decision was the outcome of an expanded stakeholders’ meeting of the party that was hosted in Umuahia by governor Alex Otti of Abia State.
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