The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Political Commission has described the court’s recognition of Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) as miscarriage of justice.
On October 8, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja delivered a ruling that recognized Mr Abure as LP national chairman.
The NLC commission made this known on Thursday in Abuja in a statement signed Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku and Comrade Chris Uyot, Ag. Chairman and Secretary, of the commission respectively.
The Commission also expressed displeasure with the court judgement that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Abure access to the INEC training portal.
The statement titled ‘Miscarriage of Justice: Our Stand’: said “The judgement delivered on Tuesday, 8th October 2024 by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court came as a surprise to millions of democracy loving Nigerians and indeed persons of conscience and consciousness all over the world.
“The NLC Political Commission views the judgement as another act of desperation and subterfuge by Mr. Julius Abure and his motley of hangers-on merchants who have no other job than to leech and parasitise on the goodwill of the Labour Party in furtherance of their pecuniary interest.’
The commission which alleged that Abure and other exco members were being paid were bent on sabotaging and destabilising the LP before the 2027 general election.
“We perceive the Justice Omotosho judgement and now the Justice Emeka Nwite’s judgment that appear to give some veneer of legitimacy to the expired leadership of Mr. Julius Abure by venerating the widely vilified Nnewi Convention of the Labour Party illegally conducted by Mr. Abure in violation of extant court judgements, provisions of the Labour Party Constitution and INEC supervised terms of settlement as a gross miscarriage of justice.
The commission lamented that both the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) who are the only statutory bodies recognised in the LP Constitution were not joined as parties to the two court processes filed by Mr. Abure has been contesting qualifies as prime travesty of justice.
The officials said “This deliberate exclusion is not happenstance but a furtherance of mischievous intention by Mr. Abure to hide vital material facts and evidence from our learned judges in furtherance of the evasive style of backwaters and mercantile politics which he has epitomised since his unfortunate and tragic usurpation of the leadership of the Labour Party.”
The statement said the tenure of Abure and his NWC has since ended, adding that events that shaped the expiration of the tenure of Abure and his NWC were supervised by the INEC in April 2022.
“Finally, we assert that a million court judgements will not impose Mr. Abure on members of the Labour Party. We remain persuaded that the forces of evil pervading our country will not thrive perpetually. There is certainly a date with history for the truncation of the reign of evil and tyranny. The will of the people will always triumph!” the statement said.