Court Stops Labour Party Chairman, Others From Parading As National Officers

The court has stopped the Labour Party chairman and others from parading themselves a national officers.

Glamtush reports that the controversy surrounding the purported suspension of the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, took a legal turn on Wednesday when Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) barred the chairman and three other national executive members of the party from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

Others stopped from parading themselves as national officers are the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, National Organising Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu and the national treasurer, Oluchi Opara.

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.

According to him, such documents included receipts, seal and affidavits of the court, which he claimed the party officials used to carry out criminal activities.

Onoja, who tendered the alleged forged documents before the court, further told the court that the Chief Registrar of the FCT High Court had written the Labour Party to disown several documents used for the alleged criminal activities by Abure and three others.

The senior advocate told the court that following their indictment by police investigation, the four persons are to be arraigned in court with their arrest warrants already obtained.

Ruling on the application, Justice Muazu held that the application and the supporting affidavits made out a good case for the request to be granted.

He subsequently ordered that the four persons should immediately stop parading themselves as national officers of the Labour Party.

Justice Muazu subsequently fixed April 17 for the motion on notice to be heard.