‘Unknown Persons Announced Suspension of Abure’ – Labour Party National Working Committee

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party (LP), on Friday, dismissed the reported suspension of its National Chairman, Julius Abure.

Earlier on Friday evening, the Executive Council members in Ward 3, Arue in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State suspended Abure over alleged forgery and anti-party activities.

Reacting in a statement signed on Friday by its National Secretary, Mallam Farouk Umar, the LP said the purported suspension is illegal and of no consequence.

Umar said it is only the National Convention that can suspend the national chairman and this must be through a convention called for the purpose of the suspension.

The LP scribe said those claiming to be the ward executives should be regarded as impostors, adding that they lacked the powers to suspend Abure.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Leadership of the Labour Party was called to the Press Conference held today Friday, 31st March 2023 by some unknown faces assembled 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 are untrue and concocted by the sponsors of the Press Conference. We however deemed it fit to make some responses. The Young men we saw in that visuals are apparently not anybody from Labour Party in Edo state as claimed.

“The executives of the party in the state, Local Government and my ward are well known to the party. None of them was at the press conference.”