The Labour Party (LP) has said that the governorship primary elections conducted in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states by its suspended National Chairman, Julius Abure are illegal, null, and void.
The party in a statement titled, “Perspectives of the Labour Party (LP) 15th and 16th April 2023 Imo State Gubernatorial Primary Election” and signed by its National Youth Leader, Comrade Eragbe Anslem, said that Abure had no business conducting the party’s primary elections as his actions amounted to contempt of court order.
According to the Labour Party, Abure and other members of the party suspended by the Federal High Court had no business conducting the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on April 18, 2023, in Asaba, Delta State capital, and gubernatorial primaries.