{"id":15044,"date":"2023-08-24T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15044"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:11:13","slug":"acourt-sacks-abure-affirms-apapa-as-lp-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15044","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019Court Sacks Abure, Affirms Apapa As LP National Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamido Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court also dismissed the governorship candidature of Senator Athan Achonu of Imo State, and others belonging to the Abure-led LP faction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/i-remain-labour-partys-legitimate-chairman-apapa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April<\/a>, Apapa said his suspension as a member of the party was invalid, noting that he remained the \u2018legitimate acting chairman.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On August 14, the <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/just-in-appeal-court-affirms-abure-as-lp-chairman-apapa-faction-kicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PUNCH reported<\/a> that a Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, Edo State capital, affirmed Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to this, on May 26, The <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/just-in-court-affirms-abure-as-lp-chairman-restrains-apapa-faction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PUNCH reported<\/a> that a State High Court sitting in Edo dismissed the notice of suspension issued against Abure by some party members at the ward level. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The judge, Justice Emmanuel Aihamoje, threw out the case for lacking merit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamido Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7488,5097,5229],"class_list":["post-15044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-acourt","tag-lp","tag-national-chairman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15046,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions\/15046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}