The Appeal Court has restored Julius
Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party even as the honourable court sets aside the restraining order against Abure and some other Labour Party executives.

The National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, confirmed the development in Abuja, when he declared in a press briefing that he is “back as National Chairman, and that the LP was united and has no faction in its rank.”

He also said the suspended Deputy National Chairman of the party, “Apapa Lamidi, failed in the attempt to create a faction in LP.”

According to him, the FCT High Court in Abuja ceases to have jurisdiction over the suit praying for a restraining order over him.

Abure spoke in a press conference at the party’s Secretariat were he also announced to return of the other suspended party executives.

He told journalists that “earlier restraint by the FCT High Court has been set aside by our appeal at the Appeal Court ”.

The Punch had reported that “the development is coming one month after they were barred by Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal High Court in Abuja from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

The judge ruled that Abure; his National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim; National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu and one other, should no longer be given recognition as party executives.

The order was granted in an ex-parte application argued by Chief James Ogwu Onoja SAN, in which he informed the court the affected national officers allegedly forged several documents of the FCT High Court to carry out unlawful substitutions in the recently-held 2023 general election.