Umeh also called on Abure to join the process again if he still wants to be LP’s National Chairman.
By Kehinde Okeowo
Federal lawmaker, Victor Umeh, has advised former Labour Party (LP) national Chairman, Julius Abure to humbly bow out, saying there is no way back after his sack.
He gave the advice to the embattled LP chieftain on Thursday while featuring on a Channels TV programme.
According to the Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, the Supreme Court has shut the door on Abure.
He further counselled the former LP Chairman to obey the verdict of the apex court on the party’s leadership crisis, arguing that he knew his tenure had expired.
Speaking during the interview, Umeh said, “The door has been shut on him [Abure], and the only thing left to him is for him to reflect over the admonishment given to him by the Supreme Court that officers of a party should be humble enough to leave office when their tenure expires.
“His tenure has expired, he knows it, and he is in breach of an agreement which became a consent judgement of the Federal High Court that he should do the following things, and he refused to do them. From that time till today, Abure has not held any congress anywhere.”
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He also called on Abure to join the process again if he still wants to be the party’s National Chairman, adding that he cannot make himself chairman without going through the process.
The legislator added that he saw the situation coming and advised Abure but he dismissed him.
Abure and members of the National Working Committee (NWC), have been pitched against Nenadi Usman’s Caretaker Committee constituted by the party’s presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, Governor Alex Otti and other elected officials of the party.
Last week, the Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman of the party, having earlier found that the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.
The apex court said the issue of leadership was an internal affair of a party over which courts lacked jurisdiction, and noted that Abure’s tenure had since expired.
