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Only Candidates Recognise By Me Will Participate In Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa Guber Election – Apapa

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August 24, 2023
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Only Candidates Recognise By Me Will Participate In Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa Guber Election – Apapa
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The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Lamidi Apapa, says only candidates endorsed by him can feature in the Nov.11 Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo governorship election.

Apapa said this when he spoke at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, saying that the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Owerri had affirmed him as the authentic National Chairman of the party.

He said that the court also sacked the Julius Abure led faction and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise governorship candidates produced by his faction for the election.

The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, had on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamidi Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

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The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately recognise and publish the names of all the governorship candidates produced by the Apapa-led National Working Committee in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states.

The court also dismissed the governorship candidature of Senator Athan Achonu of Imo State, and others belonging to the Abure-led LP faction.

“You will recall that on April 5, the FCT High court restrained Abure and others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

“As a result, the party appointed the Deputy National Chairman Alhaji Lamidi Apapa as the acting national chairman of the party pursuant to its constitution.

“Sequel to that the party under my leadership wrote to INEC changing its date of primary election earlier scheduled by Abure from April 15 to April 16.

“Notwithstanding the fact that he was under a restraining order, Abure still went ahead to conduct his primaries for Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa on those dates,” he said.

Apapa said that on the other hand, his faction conducted primaries on April 16 making it two primaries conducted by the LP in the states.

“Peeved by the primary conducted by me, a candidate who participated in the Abure primary took my candidate to court whilst maintaining that Abure’s candidates were the authentic ones.

“The case was frantically defended, and the Federal High court, Owerri Division, declared the primaries conducted by me as the authentic candidate as Abure was under a restraining order as at the time he screened candidates and conducted his primaries,” he said.

Apapa said the court recognised him as the authentic Chairman of the party.

He said that dissatisfied with the FHC judgment, Abure’s candidates, including the winner of his primaries, appealed against the judgment to the Court of Appeal.

He said that the court of appeal had also affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court that Abure’s conduct was contemptuous as he was under a restraining order when he conducted the said primaries.

“That restraining order is still in force even at the time this judgment was delivered,’’ he said. (NAN/vitalnewsngr.com)

 

 

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