From Sola Ojo, Abuja
Following the lingering crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP), the Julius Abure-led team yesterday raised the alarm over plans to evade the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
The National Secretary, Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim, in a statement, accused the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) of mobilising its members, hiring thugs and some miscreants in concert with the illegal Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee (NCC) and the National Transition Committee (NTC) to invade the party’s national secretariat in Abuja
“During the invasion, the NLC will attempt an unlawful break and entry into offices at the national headquarters to cart away sensitive documents and to also vandalise the properties belonging to the party.
“We view this action, which is capable of breaching the peace of the Federal Capital Territory, as irresponsible and evidence of desperation on the NLC. The Labour Union, which the laws that founded it forbid from partisan politics, has, on different occasions in the past, mobilised miscreants to desecrate the national headquarters of the party and vandalise the properties.
“It must be noted that the judgement of the Supreme Court delivered on April 5, 2025, is very clear and unambiguous. The judgement simply mandates political parties to always resolve their crisis using internal mechanisms and that the issue of leadership is an internal affair of the political parties.
“There is nowhere in the judgement that gave the NLC, National Caretaker Committee or any other body by whatever nomenclature to take over the leadership of the Labour Party.
“There is a leadership in place in the Labour Party, and Julius Abure, who was validly elected at a convention held in March 2024, still remains the National Chairman of the Labour Party. Any attempt to forcefully usurp the present leadership will be resisted.
“We are by this statement calling on the attention of the security agencies, including the Police and the DSS among others to ensure that any activity that is capable of breaching the peace of the FCT must be nipped in the bud and that the masterminds, no matter how high they might be, are apprehended and made to face the full wrath of the law,” he appealed.