Supreme Court Verdict: Stop Misleading the Public, You Are No Longer Labour Party Chairman, Apapa Tells Abure
Alhaji Lamidi Apapa has warned Barrister Julius Abure to stop parading himself as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.
Apapa in a statement signed by Dr Abayomi Arabambi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Party said Abure had ceased to be National Chairman of Labour Party following the ruling of the Supreme Court delivered on September 11th, 2023.
Apapa who was reacting to the statement credited to Abure that the Supreme Court had settled the leadership crisis rocking the Party in his favor said Julius Abure had been economical with the truth.
“The Attention of Lamidi Apapa led National Working Committee of Labour party has been drawn to statements credited to Julius Abure that he claimed has settled Labour party leadership in his favor via a press statement made on January 1st, 2024
“Labour Party wouldn’t have dignified this beer parlor publication lace with deliberate falsehood or considered it necessary to react to such an epistle of deliberate judicial rascality, criminal conspiracy, distortion, personal bitterness, ignorance, and complete unintelligent outburst but for the benefit of the few in the public who may innocently be mis informed.
“Just like in some political parties In Nigeria, there are those who rush to adorn the toga of contenders but in reality are mere pretenders who are time and moment away from being exposed.
“He has continued to pretend and mislead unsuspecting members of the Labour party and the public with his intellectual sophistry and claims of being the National Chairman which is already dead and buried with the Supreme Court judgment in suit nos SC/CV/845/2023 and SC/CV/842/2023 delivered on 11 days of September 2023 by their lordship :
1 Hon Justice MUSA DATTIJO MUHAMMAD
2 Hon Justice HELEN MORENIKEJI OGUNWUMIJU
3 Hon Justice ADAMU JAURO
4 Hon Justice TIJANI ABUBAKAR
5 Hon Justice EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM
Copies of the said judgment are attached here for ease of reference as Annexure A below
With the Statements above, we challenge Abure to cite the Supreme Court suit number and the Name of the justices of the Supreme Court that Affirmed his faction as the Authentic leadership of the Labour Party.
Abure Julius was also criminally indicted by the Inspector General of Police INVESTIGATION REPORTS with reference number CB: 4099/×/FHQ/ABJ/SEB/T.11/VOL1/227 where a PRIMA FACIE CASE OF CONSPIRACY, PEJURY AND FORGERY WAS ESTABLISHED AGAINST HIM.
The police confirmed that the letter of withdrawal submitted by Abure was forged
copies of the police investigation reports are also attached as Annexure B below
Labour party posited by this publication that Julius Abure must publish the police report that vindicated him else he should submit himself to police prosecution and apologize to Nigerians for being one of the worst additions to the legal race and conclusively the black cat of the Abure Dynasty
Labour Party wishes to state clearly that every Nigerian citizen enjoys certain fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999(as amended).
Section 33 of the Constitution provides for the right to life while section 34 provides for the right to dignity of the human person.
These rights are further protected under the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983.
These rights ensured that nobody including institutions had the power to take the life of another and/or subject another to any form of inhuman and degrading treatment.
The murderous attempt by Julius Abure and former President of Nigeria Bar Association Mr. Olumide Akpata paid politically hired assassins to snuff the life out of Comrade Anslem Eragbe is in violation of sections 33 and 34 of the Constitution and Articles 2 and 3 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
Nigerians may wish to recall that on 5/4/2023, the FCT High Court restrained Julius Abure, Clement Ojukwu, and 2 others from parading themselves as National Officers of the party.
The order was subsequently extended pending the determination of the appeal filed by the criminal charge and bail lawyer. Mr Julius Abure and his co-defendants in the matter wherein a Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay of Proceedings (not motion for stay of execution) was filed by them at the Court of Appeal Abuja
The appeal is now pending before the Court of Appeal for determination.
It is submitted with respect that the order of the FCT High Court subsists and remains in force until set aside by the court of appeal. As things stand, that appeal has not been heard.
Order 43 rule 3 sub-rule 2 does not apply because the court extended the lifespan of the order pending the hearing and determination of the appeal filed by them.
In any event, assuming without conceding that the order was not extended, it does not lie in the mouth of a party to say an order of the court has expired.
Once an order is made, it remains in force until set aside by the same court or set aside by a superior court.
The argument of Abure in this regard, is, to say the least, idiotic, juvenile, and lame. It is further made worse by the fact that he is someone that purports to be a lawyer which is in doubt now and does not know this elementary principle of law. What a shame!
Labour party sympathizes with the immediate family of Julius Abure because is now obvious that he is suffering from acute depression and dementia that has developed into bipolar disorder due to lack of early care
Labor party urges the Nigeria Medical Association to urgently come to his rescue to evaluate his mental state of health before he becomes so dangerous that constitutes a compound nuisance to the General public.
We are also pleading with the Nigerian Bar Association to launch an investigation into Julius Abure Call -to- Bar -Certificate as it’s obvious his conduct depicts a ROADSIDE CHARGE and TRAINED LAWYER
Finally, we want to refer restrained former National Chairman Baby Boy Julius Abure to :
SUNDAY & ORS v. MBATA & ORS (2022) LPELR -58621(CA), MOBIL OIL NIG. LTD V. ASSAN (1995) 8 NWLR (PT.412)129 where it was stated that:
An order of a court of competent jurisdiction once made remains valid and subsisting. It cannot expire on its own. It can only be vacated by the same court that granted it or set aside on appeal by a superior court.
In conclusion, ALH Bashiru Lamidi Apapa therefore is the only recognized National Chairman of the Labour Party since we have since conducted a political burial interment for him and his criminal groups at NIGERIA POLITICAL CEMETERY ABUJA
