{"id":2805,"date":"2023-08-24T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:05:37","slug":"acourt-sacks-abure-affirms-apapa-as-lp-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/acourt-sacks-abure-affirms-apapa-as-lp-national-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019Court sacks Abure, affirms Apapa as LP National Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u2026Orders INEC to recognise Apapa-led NWC governorship candidates<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius Abure, and recognised Lamido Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately recognise and publish the names of all the governorship candidates produced by the Apapa-led National Working Committee in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court also dismissed the governorship candidature of Senator Athan Achonu of Imo State, and others belonging to the Abure-led LP faction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/i-remain-labour-partys-legitimate-chairman-apapa\/\">April<\/a>, Apapa said his suspension as a member of the party was invalid, noting that he remained the \u2018legitimate acting chairman.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On August 14, the <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/just-in-appeal-court-affirms-abure-as-lp-chairman-apapa-faction-kicks\/\">PUNCH reported<\/a> that a Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, Edo State capital, affirmed Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to this, on May 26, The <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/just-in-court-affirms-abure-as-lp-chairman-restrains-apapa-faction\/\">PUNCH reported<\/a> that a State High Court sitting in Edo dismissed the notice of suspension issued against Abure by some party members at the ward level. The judge, Justice Emmanuel Aihamoje, threw out the case for lacking merit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Orders INEC to recognise Apapa-led NWC governorship candidates The Court of Appeal in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, sacked Julius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}