LP crises worsens as ex-Deputy Chairman, Okafor asks Supreme Court to declare him National Chairman

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A former Deputy Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Callistus Uju Okafor, has approached the Supreme Court to declare him as the authentic chairman of the party.

 

Okafor, who said the constitution of the LP still recognises him as the substantive Deputy Chairman of the party, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday.

 

 

The appellant said he emerged as the chairman of the LP following the death of the Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, on December 29, 2020.

 

 

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He urged the apex court to declare his ouster as the acting national chairman following the death of the substantive chairman, Abdulsalami, as illegal because there was also a consent judgment that recognised his emergence.

 

Okafor further prayed the Supreme Court to also declare null and void, and of no effect, all actions so far taken by a former Assistant Secretary of the party, Julius Abure, in his new capacity as the LP’s National Chairman.

HE SAID:

“I am the only acting National Chairman of the Labour Party. Every other person parading himself as such is fake. Lamidi Apapa and Abure are both fake.

“Apapa for instance cannot emerge in illegality. His emergence would have been better if there was no consent judgment.

“So far there is a consent judgment, Julius Abure is an illegal Labour Party Chairman.

“The only leader the Labour Party has at the moment is Callistus Okafor who is the acting National Chairman that is recognised by the constitution of the Labour Party.

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“Let everybody know that I have approached the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday May 18 and prayed the apex court to declare Abure’s LP chairmanship claims, illegal.

“I have drawn the attention of the court to the fact that the acting secretary of the LP, based on the party’s constitution, cannot emerge as the chairman.

“I have also asked the Supreme Court to declare null and void and of no effect, whatever Abure has done in his so-called capacity as the Chairman of the LP.”

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He said he specifically drew the attention of the justices of the apex court to the fact that Abure had conducted an illegal convention and primaries for LP which he has no legal power to do.

Okafor stated that he asked the Supreme Court to nullify all actions taken by Abure which were the basis for the Labour Party’s participation in the 2023 general election, adding that he also asked the court to recognise his party’s membership list because the list is with him and could be verified.

Okafor had approached the Supreme Court in 2022 to challenge the Appeal Court validation of his ouster as the acting National Chairman of the Labour Party, citing abuse of process.

He returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday to amend his prayers before the apex court.

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