Supporters of the Senator Esther Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee (NCC) of the Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday in Abuja broke into jubilation following the release of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the last week’s Supreme Court judgment on the party’s leadership dispute.
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, who read excerpts from the document, announced that the court affirmed the leadership of Senator Usman.
Otti spoke at the National Executives Committee (NEC) meeting and expanded stakeholders summit held at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja which was attended by the LP national leader and it’s Presidential candidate in 2023 elections, Peter Obi.
The meeting came two days after a fractional national chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure, threatened to sanction Otti and Obi for anti-party activities and for organising the NEC which held today.
“The Supreme Court has affirmed that the plaintiff (Usman and others) were right in their appeal and went further to admonish politicians to respect the tenures of office as stipulated in their respective political party constitutions,” Otti said.
He also faulted Abure for insisting on staying as the LP national chairman, even when his tenure had expired and the party members also don’t want him again.
He said, “I had a meeting with him (Abure) and asked him, what he wanted, he said he didn’t want anything, we offered him the Chairmanship of the party’s board of trustees (BoT). He went ahead to want to stay when his tenure and those of the NWC (National Working Committee) had expired.
“The correct procedure of you still want to be national chairman is to start from the ward congress, State congress, zonal congress, where the delegates would emerge for the national convention and everyone member is free to contest,” Otti said.
