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Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has on Wednesday, in a suit marked: THC/ABJ/CS/2262/2025, sacked Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). Presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu, relied on the April 4, 2025 verdict of Nigerian Supreme Court to declare a former Minister of Finance, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it refused to recognise the candidates of Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) nominated for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) council polls and by-elections because his tenure has elapsed. in a statement Wednesday, Mrs. Victoria Eta-Messi, INEC Director, Voter Education and Publicity, recalled that on Monday, January […]
Continue ReadingFactional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has held a closed-door meeting with Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), at the latter’s residence in Abuja, Nigeria. Details of the meeting remain unclear, but its timing has raised eyebrows as it follows closely on the heels of a public demand […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP) caretaker committee chairperson, Nenadi Usman, has dared Julius Abure to follow through on his threat to expose Peter Obi, Alex Otti and other key members aligned with her faction of the party. While appearing on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Friday, Usman dismissed Abure’s threats as bluster, challenging him to […]
Continue ReadingThe strait in the Labour Party continued on Wednesday as the Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee, announced at a press conference in Abuja, that it had started investigation into the “numerous corruption and forgery allegations” levelled against embattled National Chairman, Julius Abure. Usman-led caretaker committee, supported by Abia State Governor, Alex Otti; and the 2023 presidential […]
Continue ReadingThe struggle for the leadership of the Labour Party (LP) took a different twist on Monday after the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure and LP presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi election simultaneously called for separate meetings of the National Executive Committee to discuss the future of the party following Friday’s judgement by […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has on Friday removed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. A five-member panel of the Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment, set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which had recognised Abure as the party’s national chairman. In its decision, Nigeria’s final court held […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja Nigeria, has ruled that Julius Abure remains the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). In a judgment of three member panel delivered on Friday by Justice Hamma Barka, upheld its earlier judgment, which recognises Abure as National Chairman. The court confirmed that this decision has not been […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, who was represented by Datti Baba-Ahmed, has stated that the embattled former national chairman of the party, Mr. Julius Abure, was not removed by any governor but was removed by the party’s constitution, Obi gave the clarification at the inaugural meeting of […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has been re-elected for a second term by a unanimous affirmation of delegates. The Chairman of the National Convention and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu declared him the winner during the party’s national convention that held in Nnewi, Anambra state on Wednesday, March […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has set aside the decision of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, which restrained Julius Abure and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the party. Ruling on an ex-parte application brought by Martins Esikpali John and others on April 5, 2023, Hamza Muazu, […]
Continue ReadingNew crisis has hit a faction of the Labour Party (LP) being led by Julius Abure after its National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, at a news briefing in Abuja on Monday, demanded the accountability of about N3.5 billion in party finances. According to her, the finances were proceeds from the sales of forms and other fundraising […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) has dismissed claims that its party leadership, led by Julius Abure, has been sacked by the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State. Instead, the LP said it was another devastating blow for the Lamidi Apapa-led faction as the Court of Appeal in Owerri dismissed the appeal filed by one Mr Basil […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamidi Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately recognise and publish the names of all the governorship candidates produced by the Apapa-led National Working Committee […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, the Edo State capital, has affirmed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This was contained in a statement issued Monday evening by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh. See the statement below: PRESS RELEASE Court Of Appeal Affirms Abure As […]
Continue ReadingNational Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure, said that he has been informed of the plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to work ahead of a possible rerun, knowing that the tide of the wind is heavily tilted against it. Abure also called on the over 10 million members of […]
Continue ReadingJustice Hamza Muazu of a High Court in Abuja, on Friday granted an order of stay execution on the suspension of Julius Abure, Chairman of the Labour Party and others. Others are the National Organizing Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu and National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, from parading themselves as LP national officials. The plaintiffs in the […]
Continue ReadingFollowing two contradictory high court rulings over leadership of the Labour Party (LP) in Nigeria, the Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions of the party have been at loggerheads over who is the recognised National Chairman of the Party. The power tussle snowballed into holding factional primaries to produce candidates who will participate in the […]
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