The Council of Chairmen of the Labour Party, LP, in Nigeria has urged the National Leadership of the party to call for an emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting to resolve the crisis rocking the party.
This was contained in a communique at the end of the Labour Party State Chairmen meeting, held at the Labour Party National Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria’s Capital.
The chairmen’s forum said that the recent development in the party, where a few members of the NWC led by Mr. Apapa Lamidi, declared themselves the new leadership of the party, was reviewed.
Part of the communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Forum, Chief Rotimi Kehinde stated that “Barr Julius Abure remains the National Chairman of LP and Comrade Apapa Lamidi’s action along with his gang is accordingly repudiated and cannot stand.”
He urged the concerned members of the Labour Party to immediately effect the withdrawal of the matter from the court as no legitimate member of the party would destroy his own home.
“Few members of the National Working Committee (NWC), led by Comrade Lamidi and others declared themselves the new leaders of our party.
“The 36 chairmen resolved that Mr Abure remains the national chairman of LP and Comrade Lamidi’s action is accordingly repudiated and cannot stand.
“He and the others in his group grossly violated the provision of our party’s Constitution and took internal matters of the party to court without exhausting all the appropriate instituted channels of resolving disputes.
“They are by the dint of this communique directed to immediately effect withdrawal of the matter from court and return to the path of rectitude for due process,’’ he said.
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