{"id":104783,"date":"2023-05-13T03:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104783"},"modified":"2023-05-13T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:06:52","slug":"lp-crisis-charlatans-dubious-people-we-admitted-are-trying-to-hijack-the-party-abure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/lp-crisis-charlatans-dubious-people-we-admitted-are-trying-to-hijack-the-party-abure\/","title":{"rendered":"LP crisis: Charlatans, dubious people we admitted are trying to hijack the party \u2013 Abure\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has apologized to the party faithful that the party inadvertently admitted those he referred to as charlatans and dubious persons into its fold in the hurry to grow its membership.<\/div>\n
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\nAbure tendered the apology while receiving a group of party supporters and civil society groups at the party\u2019s National Secretariat, in Abuja, on Friday.<\/p>\n

He expressed sadness that this set of people were the ones who have placed themselves in the service of enemies of the party to cause chaos.<\/p>\n

Abure said, \u201cThe party was a small party and because we want to have numbers, we accommodated all form of charlatans and dubious people into the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are people who didn\u2019t offer anything to the party. Apapa scored zero in Oyo state in the Presidential election. Arabambi who is claiming to be the Publicity Secretary scored zero in Ogun state in the presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey even supported other candidates from other parties. In Edo, I scored 79 percent of the votes in the presidential election. I ensured that APC and PDP did not get 25 percent in that election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining what transpired in court earlier in the day, the party chairman said, \u201cWe have obeyed the court restraining order and by today, the court gave a ruling, assuming jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to make it abundantly clear that the substantive matter has not started. There was a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the court and the court today assumed jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for me, I am ready to go for an appeal. In the next few hours, we will be submitting our notice of appeal to the court and we will move all the matter from that court and take it to the court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that I will get justice in the Court of Appeal. I believe that Labour Party will get justice in the court of Appeal. Because this same court in FCT in 2023 in the case of Sulieman v APC did the same thing and the Law Report decided by the Supreme Court made it very clear that the court has no jurisdiction over such matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is where we are standing and we believe that whatever the court has said today can\u2019t stand before the court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the court of Appeal will do the right thing and therefore all our papers will be filed today and by Monday the appeal will commence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I want to assure all our supporters, all our members that they should remain calm, I remain the National Chairman of the Labour Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further said, \u201cLabour party is a democratic institution and you don\u2019t use coup d\u2019 tat to grab leadership, you don\u2019t use the back door to take over the leadership of the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what Apapa and co tried to do. Though we understand them because they have been paid by their paymasters, if you look at the statement they made today, they are talking about the tribunal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever they say is about the tribunal, and it is no longer news that these disgruntled Labour Party members have been paid to truncate the cases in tribunal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are only satisfying their paymasters and so we urge all our members to disregard them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know how to remove the National Chairman, and how a new one can be elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it is unfortunate that this group of people found themselves in the Labour Party.\u00a0 The time has come for us to separate the wheat from the chaff.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the governorship election and House of Assembly election, in spite of the dollars and harassment that were deployed by the PDP government, I am the only national chairman that won my ward.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy performances as the national chairman of this party is in no doubt. I inherited a party that was in arears of salary payment, a party that has no image and today I have made the party number one party in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this party, I have paid my dues. I have been here for 20 years building this party and today I challenge all other national chairmen of other parties, none of them have performed more than me and the records are clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, they want to take over the party, we laugh at them. And I urge Nigerians to ignore them because whatever information they are getting from them are fake news.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to reassure you that we are in control and I remain the national chairman. I assure you that we continue to provide leadership. Our cases are in court, and we will continue to defend them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur House of Reps and senatorial cases, we will continue to defend to the end and our presidential election tribunal we will defend to the end. No amount of distraction will stop us from attaining our aspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI listened to you clearly, you are dreaming for a new Nigeria, and I want to say it clearly, no one, no amount of intimidation, harassment, no amount of hundred of Apapas can stop an idea whose time has come.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime has come for Nigeria to take back their country, the time has come for Labour Party to take over the presidency of this country and nothing will stop us.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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