The Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, Victor Umeh, has said there is no way back to the Labour Party for the sacked former national Chairman, Julius Abure.
According to him, the Supreme Court judgement on the LP leadership crisis has shut the door on Abure.
Umeh told Channels Television on Thursday that Abure should obey the ruling of the apex court and humbly bow out.
The lawmaker said, “The door has been shut on him [Abure], and the only thing left to him is for him to reflect over the admonishment given to him by the Supreme Court that officers of a party should be humble enough to leave office when their tenure expires.
“His tenure has expired, he knows it, and he is in breach of an agreement which became a consent judgement of the Federal High Court that he should do the following things, and he refused to do them. From that time till today, Abure has not held any congress anywhere.”;
He called on Abure to join the process again if he still wants to be the party’s National Chairman, adding that he cannot make himself chairman without going through the process.
The lawmaker said that he saw the situation coming and advised Abure but was dismissed by the embattled LP chieftain.
DAILY POST reports that Labour Party, which came third position in the 2023 general elections, has been embroiled in leadership tussle.
Abure and members of the National Working Committee, NWC, have been pitched against Nenadi Usman’s Caretaker Committee constituted by the party’s presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, Governor Alex Otti and other elected officials of the party.
Last week, the Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman of the party, having earlier found that the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.
The apex court held that the issue of leadership was an internal affair of a party over which courts lacked jurisdiction and noted that Abure’s tenure had since expired.
