April 08, (THEWILL) – The Labour Party Presidential Council has alleged that the current leadership crisis rocking the party is not about the embattled National Chairman, Julius Abure, but targeted at its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
THEWILL reports that seven members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, on Thursday, replaced Abure with Lamidi Bashir Apapa, as acting National Chairman.
However, Spokesperson of the Party’s Presidential Council, Tanko Yunusa, said the crisis was orchestrated to frustrate the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who is in court to challenge Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the 25th February election.
Tanko, who spoke when he featured on Channels Television, said, according to the Labour Party constitution, the national chairman of the party can be removed from office by a vote of no confidence passed by at least a two-third majority of the national convention convened solely for the consideration of such motion, an action which he argued was yet to be taken.
Yunusa said, “We are at the point of struggling for the soul of Nigeria led by Peter Obi; we are now being meddled and manipulated within the party to challenge the leadership of the party, who is at the front of this particular struggle and then, leaving credence to other things. I am not alluding that they don’t have a document to prove against Julius Abure; this should be done within the party.
“I had made it clear that the target is beyond the party chairman; it is against our presidential candidate, Peter Obi.”
