The Labour Party National Transition Committee has disassociated itself from the planned State Congresses announced by the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure.
The committee’s Media and Publicity Subcommittee Chairman, Tony Akani, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
According to Akani, the planned congresses are contrary to a subsisting court judgment and lack the support of the Nigeria Electoral Act, INEC, and the Nigeria Constitution, according to Daily Post.
He stated that the congresses are being organized by Abure and his associates, who were impersonators at the Nnewi convention, which was not recognized by INEC, Labour Party leader Peter Obi, and other stakeholders.
Akani emphasized that the Nnewi convention was a nullity, and any actions taken by persons purporting to have been elected at the event are invalid.
He recalled that INEC, Peter Obi, and other stakeholders had dissociated themselves from the Nnewi Convention.
However, the National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, dismissed the LPNTC as unknown to the party and urged the public to ignore statements emanating from it regarding the LP.
According to Akani, the public notice was designed to inform the general public, especially members of the Labour Party throughout Nigeria, that, “Ward, Local Government Area and State congresses purportedly being organized by the suspended former acting national chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his INEC discredited Nnewi convention impersonators in Anambra, Imo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Ondo, Kaduna, Adamawa and other states are acts“ run contrary to a subsisting court judgment.
