LP Leadership Crisis worsen as Factional Chairman emerges

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Following a court ruling prohibiting Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as national officers of the Labour Party (LP), some members of the National Working Committee of the party (LP) led by the Deputy National Chairman of the party (South) Lamidi Apapa have taken over the party’s affairs.

The development took place in Abuja on Thursday during an emergency meeting of the LP National Working Committee (NWC).

Lamidi said he is now the Acting National Chairman of the party while Saleh Lawan is the Acting National Secretary.

According to him, Abure and the three others must vacate the order of the Federal High Court retraining them before further action can be taken on the leadership of the party.

The emergency NWC meeting also reinstated Executive Council members from Ogun State, Rivers State, and Gombe State.

During the meeting, Lamidi also reversed the suspension of Eragbe Anslem as the National Youth Leader and Yomi Arabambi as the National Publicity Secretary.