Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have taken over the Labour Party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
On Thursday, seven members of the National Working Committee, NWC, installed the National Vice-Chairman (South), Lamidi Bashir Apapa, as the party’s acting chairman.
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Julius Abure, the suspended chairman, was replaced by Apapa.
Apapa stated after an emergency meeting that the NWC members acted on the decision of an Abuja High Court, which barred Abure from parading himself as the LP’s National Chairman.
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Apart from Abure, the court also restrained the National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, the National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, and the National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu.
Apapa told journalists that the NWC also reviewed the suspension of party members and exco members who had previously been suspended by the party leadership.
