LP crisis: Abure-led faction threatens to sue Usman, others

By John Alechenu
ABUJA: The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) has threatened ineligible enactment against the Interim National Chairman of the party, Senator Nenadi Usman and 2 of her aides implicit their attacks connected the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

National Publicity Secretary of the Abure faction of the party, Obiora Ifoh, issued the menace successful a connection successful Abuja connected Thursday.

Ifoh, who was responding to an earlier connection signed by Senator Usman’s media aide, said Usman and her squad were arrogating to themselves powers they bash not have.

Usman had called for the apprehension of Abure and the acting president of INEC, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu and Abure for allegedly conspiring to subvert justness successful the party’s enactment tussle.

Ifoh said, “The alleged property connection was a wide effort to blackmail INEC and the acting Chairman of INEC, for obeying a validly issued tribunal order.

“The connection was besides crafted to embarrass His Lordship, the justice of the High Court and arsenic good to bring the tribunal to nationalist opprobrium and ridicule.

“Ms Nenadi Usman, done her aide, Asogwa had called for the apprehension of Mrs Agbamuche-Mbu for, according to them for ‘criminally colluding with Barrister Julius Abure’ to rightfully transportation retired her occupation successful enactment with the laws governing the electoral commission.

“Consequently, we person instructed our Counsel to constitute Mr. Asogwa, who is besides a lawyer, to wrong the adjacent 72 hours retract the highly violative and embarrassing connection without which we volition beryllium near with nary different prime but to petition him to the Nigerian Bar Association for describing a validly issued bid of a tribunal arsenic FAKE.

“We presumption his enactment arsenic an effort to bring the judiciary to disrepute. This is moreso for a lawyer who is expected to support the integrity of the judiciary.

“He ought to sufficiently cognize that lawyers reason their matters successful tribunal and not connected the societal media. Dragging the integrity of the tribunal successful the societal space, each due to the fact that of authorities is precise unfortunate.”

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