Labour Party Crisis
25 Aug
• Ruling invalidates Abure’s Imo, Bayelsa, Kogi guber primaries, says Apapa Confusion over the leadership of Labour Party (LP) continued, yesterday, as the Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, removed Julius Abure as national chairman. The court, consequently, recognised Lamidi Apapa as national chairman and the one Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should deal…
20 May
A mild drama occurred at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), yesterday, as the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) briefed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to announce appearance for the party.
14 May
The Labour Party in Anambra State, led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh, has thrown its full weight and support behind the Julius Abure-led national executive of the party.
21 Apr
Director General of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, yesterday, pinned the judiciary to the crisis currently rocking the opposition party.
21 Apr
Without structure, is it possible for a presidential candidate and his party to win elections in Nigeria? That poser seems to be the subtext of the ongoing leadership disputation within the Labour Party (LP).
18 Apr
Without structure, is it possible for a presidential candidate and his party to win elections in Nigeria? That poser seems to be the subtext of the ongoing leadership disputation within the Labour Party (LP).
9 Apr
The ongoing leadership crisis in the Labour Party (LP) took a new twist at the weekend, as a former Deputy National Chairman of the party (South), Callistus Okafor, declared that both the suspended National Chairman, Julius Abure and the acting National Chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, are “illegal occupants of the seat.”
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