Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, the acting National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), has resurfaced again to continue haunting the party.
He is now urging a Federal High Court, Abuja, to compel the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police to eject the embattled LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, from the party’s national secretariat.
Apapa made this known in a fresh suit filed before Justice Ahmed Mohammed.
He also sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining Abure and three other suspended national officers from further representing or parading themselves as national chairman and officers of the party.
The plaintiffs had sued Mr Abure as suspended National Chairman; Farouk Umaru, suspended National Secretary; Ojukwu Clement, suspended Organising Secretary; Oluci Opara, suspended National Treasurer and I-G as 1st to 5th defendants, respectively.
In the latest case dated June 1, the plaintiffs sought nine reliefs which include “an order setting aside or nullifying all steps or proceedings conducted by the 1st to 4th defendants, actions or decisions taken, documents or correspondences prepared, authored, signed and issued by them, after they were restrained by the FCT High Court on April 5 and suspended by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party on 3rd day of May 2023.
“An order of mandatory injunction directing or compelling the 1st to 4th defendants, whether acting by themselves or through their officers, privies, representatives, attorneys and agents, to render account of all monies or funds received by them through gift, donations, contributions for and on behalf of the party and return or refund all the monies or gift received by them for and on behalf of the party.”
The plaintiff, who prayed the court to eject Abure and the three co-defendants from the party’s national secretariat at No. 2, IBM Haruna Street, Utako, Abuja, described them as “illegal occupants.”
They sought a declaration that under Articles 13 (2)(B)(xvii), 17(ii) and 19(2) (C) & (3)C of the Constitution of the Labour Party, 2019 (as amended), the NEC of the LP is empowered and inundated with powers to take disciplinary action or discipline the erring members and national officers of the party for misconduct.
They said that by the party’s constitution, Abure, having been suspended by the NEC, cannot continue to hold himself out as the national chairman of the party, “which is a privilege only enjoyed by members of the party,” among other reliefs.
