LP Crisis: Abure’s election as National Chairman didn’t follow due process- NEC
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party (LP) has said the elections that brought in Mr Julius Abure as the party’s National Chairman did not follow due process.
The Labour Party NEC disclosed this at the stakeholders’ interactive town hall meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to them, the convention that brought Abure in did not follow due process of conducting elections from the grassroots through to the national and therefore was not legitimate.
Abia Governor, Dr Alex Otti, who read excerpts from the document of the judgement by the supreme court announced that the court affirmed the leadership of Sen. Nenadi Usman.
Otti said that the Supreme Court has affirmed that the plaintiffs (Usman and others) were right in their appeal.
The governor admonished politicians to respect the tenures of office as stipulated in their respective political party constitutions.
He also faulted Abure for insisting on staying as the LP national chairman, even when his tenure had expired and the party members also did not want him again.
“I had a meeting with him (Abure) and asked him, what he wanted, he said he did not want anything; we offered him the Chairmanship of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT)”, he added.
