Following the crisis in the national office of the Labour Party (LP), the Chairmen Forum, which comprises the 36 chairmen of LP across the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has called for a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to address the crisis.
It will be recalled that on Friday in Abuja, 28 state chairmen of the LP overpowered a team of police men mounting guard at the gate of the National Secretariat of the party in Utako, Abuja.
According to a report, the law enforcement officers were at the facility to enforce a court order barring the national chairman and some Excos from parading themselves as such.
Rotimi Kehinde, the chairman of LP Chairmen Forum, said that, those who grossly violated the provisions of the party’s constitution and take internal matters of the party to court without exhausting all the appropriate instituted channels to resolving disputes and went ahead to court are by the dint of the communique directed to immediately effect withdrawal of the matter from court and return to the part of rectitude for due process.
The 36 chairmen also condemned what they described as an act of political brigandage perpetrated by a faction of the National Working Committee (NWC) which it said was led by Comrade Apapa.
It alleged that Apapa and others involved in the police action at the party secretariat do not seem to appear as appropriate members of LP as no one member with the required sanity will destroy his own home.
The group also expressed confidence in the leadership of the national chairman, Julius Abure, as it emphasised that actions by the ringleader of the splinter faction, Apapa Lamidi along with his gang is accordingly repudiated and cannot stand.
It added, “Those who were suspended by the party led by Comrade Julius Abure remain suspended until NEC decides otherwise.
“The 36 state chairmen as members of NEC of LP met in Abuja, the headquarters of LP to review the recent development in the party where few insignificant members of NWC led by comrade Apapa Lamidi and his gang criminally declared themselves the new leadership of our party. Hence the 36 chairmen resolved as hereunder:
“We the 36 chairmen recommend that NEC should be called without further delay.
“We the 36 Chairmen uphold that the NWC meeting called by Apapa Lamidi was a nullity and it failed ab-initio. Therefore, any decision reached therefrom is of no legal effect,” the group added.
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