Labour Party Crisis: Abure corrupt, tenure expired in June, BoT secretary claim
The Labour Party’s caretaker committee on Wednesday in Abuja urged Julius Abure to stop parading himself as the party’s national chairman, saying his tenure expired on June 9, 2024.
Salisu Mohammad, secretary of the board of trustees, said this during a news conference organised by the leadership of the Labour Party’s National Transitional Committee in Abuja.
He said the decision was reached at the Umuahia stakeholder meeting by the Nenadi Usman-led caretaker committee, which was lawful and legitimate.
Mr Mohammed said the NTC engaged and mobilised all relevant stakeholders to ensure that the party recovered from what it described as Mr Abure’s illegality and corruption.
He said that since Mr Abure assumed office as national chairman following ofAbdulkadir Abdulsalam’s death in 2000, the incumbent had led the party without election.
“In fact, INEC had asked him to vacate the chair meant for chairman of the Labour Party. These interventions by the NTC have culminated in the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in Umuahia.
“The National Transitional Committee facilitated by the Nigeria Labour Congress as the trustee of the Labour Party fully accepts and commends the decision of NEC of the Labour Party at its meeting on September 4, 2024.
“We support the 29-man caretaker committee to prepare and conduct democratic congresses to elected party leadership at the Ward, LGA, State and National levels,” he said.
According to him, the NEC organised by Governor Alex Otti is the most welcome intervention needed to save the party from illegalities.
“We believe that this intervention is in line with the expression of the democratic will of the millions of Nigerians. Who does not want the party to die at the hands of political contractors who have been procured to destroy the party,” he stated.
(NAN)
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