The national headquarters of the Labour Party (LP) through its Secretary, Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim, has disclaimed the purported suspension of its national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure by his ward executives in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
According to the national headquarters the sudden suspension “was an after thought of some opposition parties purely to distract the leadership of the Labour Party at this time.”
The statement by the LP national headquarters went thus in part: “The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party was drawn to the Press Conference held today Friday, 31st March 2023 by some unknown faces assembied in one room in Abuja wherein they pronounced a suspension on our National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure. They also made some spurious allegations against him which is untrue and concocted by the sponsors of the Press Conference. We however deemed it fit to make some responses.
“The young men we saw on that visuals are apparently not members of the Labour Party in Edo State as claimed. The executives of the party in the state, local government and his ward are well known to the party. None of them were at the press conference. We make bold to say that they are people assembled and rented from Abuja slums and paid to read a prepared speech given to them by the sponsors of this illegality.
“Again, our Party Constitution is clear on who can suspend and who cannot suspend the National Chairman. They should go and read the party constitution which is very clear and unambiguous. It is only the National Convention that can suspend the National chairman of the Labour Party. It also must be through such a convention called for the purpose of the suspension of the National Chairman.”
Going further, the statement stressed: “We think that the sudden suspension was an after thought of some opposition parties purely to distract the leadership of the Labour Party at this time. There is no reasonable party member at this point in time who will be thinking of such thing when we are pursuing our presidential mandate in the court and all other mandates including the Governorship, Senate and House of Representatives that were brazenly stolen.
“Who will be contemplating the suspension of any national party official at this point in time. It is on record that for the first time in the history of the party, the Abure led leadership has succeeded to change the political narratives in the country. A party from the blues competing with the top two political parties and in the process, winning eight Senate and 34 House of Representatives as well as numerous House of Assembly seats. We also won a governorship seat while we are in court to retrieve other mandates including the Presidency.
“This is certainly not a matter that should be given serious attention by the media. We ordinarily should be talking to our lawyers by now but the fact that you are dealing with faceless individuals who are obviously been sponsored. We are also calling on Nigerians to distance themselves from politicians who take pleasure in maligning political leaders, especially, politicians who are afraid of the rising profile of our National Chairman, Julius Abure.”
