The Julius Abure led faction of the Labour Social gathering (LP), Wednesday, mentioned it’s going to instantly attraction the judgement of the Abuja Federal Excessive Court docket, which gave recognition to Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee.
In a judgment delivered by Peter Lifu, the Excessive Court docket decide on Wednesday, the court docket declared that the tenure of the Abure-led Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) resulted in April 2024.
However Obiora Ifoh, the Social gathering’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary mentioned the Court docket had misinterpreted the April 4, 2025, verdict of the Supreme Court docket to declare validate the management of Nenadi Usman, a former Minister of Finance, who’s the top of the Caretaker Committee set as much as run the affairs of the get together.
He described Usman as a “non registered member of the Labour Social gathering”.
The get together held that the judgement was in clear contradiction of the Supreme Court docket judgement which clearly said that no court docket has the facility to nominate management for any political get together and that management challenge is an inner affairs of the political get together.
The get together mentioned it’s completely satisfied that the Federal Excessive Court docket of the FCT just isn’t the final court docket, and that the get together will go on attraction and put its place earlier than the Court docket of Enchantment.
It famous that “Though we’re but to see the Licensed True Copy (CTC) of the judgment with a purpose to absolutely make remark about it, our place will change into stronger once we see the CTC of the judgement. However typically, from the temporary we’ve gotten up to now, it’s clear that the get together will attraction the judgement.
“Earlier than right this moment’s judgment, we’ve been suspecting that it might go this fashion due to the physique language across the court docket. When the matter was first filed, it was assigned to Justice Omotosho and out of the blue, there was a sumarsult, as one other matter was filed which was materials and the one despatched to Omotosho was withdrawn and now despatched to Justice Peter Lifu. That was a pink flag for us.
“Secondly, the court docket refused us the chance to reply to points raised within the counter affidavit filed by different events and shortly adjourned for judgement. That was the second pink flag.
“Our adversaries have been all around the locations, jubilating weeks earlier than, over a judgement that has not been delivered, telling everybody that they’ve already gained. The jubilation by our adversaries was all around the social media, that come right this moment the judiciary will hand over the get together to Dr. Alex Otti.
The get together additionally famous that the Court docket of Enchantment had pronounced Julius Abure’s Nationwide Working Committee because the genuine management of the get together.
That pronouncement was what Nenadi Usman took to the Supreme Court docket to say that the courts (Federal Excessive Court docket and Enchantment Court docket) have been flawed to have pronounced anyone because the Chairman of the Social gathering.
“Paradoxically, right this moment, a Federal Excessive Court docket has sumarsulted and pronounced anyone because the Caretaker Nationwide Chairman of a celebration. So what’s the judiciary turning into?
“To us, that was a transparent contradiction towards what the Supreme Court docket mentioned. Secondly, the Supreme Court docket mentioned that each one issues that should do with the management of the political get together are inner affairs of the get together and that has been the place of the Supreme Court docket.
The get together, whereas noting that the courts have severely declined jurisdiction on issues that should do with inner affairs of political events, puzzled why with one other breath, ” the court docket mentioned the Caretaker Committee was correctly arrange, in one other breath, the court docket mentioned, it was an inner affair of a political get together. In any occasion, the court docket was even flawed to be decoding the choice of the Supreme Court docket.
” Even the Supreme Court docket by no means mentioned that our tenure has expired. The supreme Court docket merely declined jurisdiction in entertaining the matter as a result of it was an inner affairs of the get together.
The get together argued that tenure of the manager had by no means expired, including ” The tenure of the manager was to run out in June 2024 however the Nationwide Conference was held in March, 2024 earlier than the expiration of the then govt, which created the current management of the get together. So for the court docket to have said that the tenure has expired and a vacuum created are all laughable.”
“It’s curious at how this court docket arrived at holding that there was a vacuum within the management of the get together when it didn’t go into the validity and legality of the nationwide conference of the get together held on March 27, 2024.
The get together nonetheless urged its members to stay calm because the management will do every little thing inside the legal guidelines to make sure that justice is served for the curiosity of the get together. It warned that the get together just isn’t on the market and no quantity of economic energy will make us abdicate ourleadership place within the get together.
