The leadership crisis within the LP deepened on Monday as the National Chairman, Julius Abure, strongly rejected claims that a vacuum existed in the party’s leadership.
Speaking at the ongoing National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the party’s National Secretariat in Utako, Abuja, Abure declared that any such assertion was a “nullity.”
“There is no vacuum in the leadership of the Labour Party. The Supreme Court judgment did not say the tenure of the current National Working Committee (NWC) under my leadership has expired,” Abure stated, refuting claims made by rival factions within the party.
He further described the so-called National Caretaker Committee as “an illegal body unknown to any law guiding the Labour Party.”
Abure continued, “What happened in Umuahia, Abia State, was not a NEC meeting; as such, the so-called caretaker committee is an illegal entity. The purported caretaker committee is just a meddlesome interloper whose sole purpose is to destroy our party.”
