LP crisis beyond Abure, targeted at Obi, Datti – Yunusa Tanko

Spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has said that the leadership crisis rocking the LP is not just an attack on the national chairman, Julius Abure, but a ploy to derail the drive by the party’s flag bearers, Mr Peter Obi and his vice, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed.

The post-election crisis in the Labour Party took another dimension on Thursday after a faction of the party, which was headed by the National Vice-Chairman of the party (South), Lamidi Apapa, emerged.

Apapa claimed to have been inaugurated as the Acting National Chairman of the party.

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Speaking on the crisis bedevilling the party while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, argued that if the drama was not beyond Abure, then those involved would have sort a better way to resolve the issues in-house using the methods established by the party’s constitution.

He stated that according to the constitution, the national chairman of the party can be removed from office on the vote of no confidence passed by at least two-third majority of the national convention convened solely for the consideration of such a motion, an action which he argued was yet to be taken.

Mr Tanko said pending when the courts have given their injunctions, the members of the party must obey the constitution and seek first to resolve their issues internally.