Fresh Crisis Looms As Former Labour Party Deputy Chairman Lays Claim To National Chairmanship Seat

It seems that the leadership crisis bedeviling the Labour Party is becoming more cumbersome as a former deputy chairman of the Party, Callistus Okafor, has also approached the Supreme Court to declare him as the rightful chairman ofy the party.

Speaking with journalists on Friday, Okafor said the constitution of the LP still recognises him as the substantive deputy chairman of the party, insisting that the embattled chairman and factional chairman are fake.

He also said that Apapa cannot emerge in illegality, as his “emergence would have been better if there was no consent judgment”.

Okafor further said that with the consent judgment, Julius Abure, therefore, is an illegal LP chairman.

“I am the only acting national chairman of the Labour Party. Every other person parading himself as such is fake. Lamidi Apapa and Abure are both fake,” Okafor said.

“Let everybody know that I have approached the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday, May 18 and prayed the apex court to declare Abure’s LP chairmanship claims, illegal.

“I have drawn the attention of the court to the fact that the acting secretary of the LP, based on the party’s constitution, cannot emerge as the Chairman.

“I have also asked the supreme court to declare null and void and of no effect, whatever Abure has done in his so-called capacity as the chairman of the LP.

“I specifically drew the attention of the honourable justices of the apex court to the fact that Abure has conducted an illegal convention and primaries for LP which he has no legal power to do.

“I have also asked the court to recognise my party’s membership list because the list is with me and could be verified.”