The Supreme Court has sacked Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
A five-member panel of justices of the apex court on Friday reversed the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which recognised Abure as the chairman.
The Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party after holding that the substance of the case borders on the party’s leadership.
The apex court maintained that the issue of leadership was an internal affair of a political party over which courts lacked jurisdiction.
Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, who heads a committee set up by the LP to run the affairs of the party in the interim, had approached the apex court to challenge the decision of the appellate court recognizing Abure as chairman of the party.
The apex court in the judgment further observed that Abure’s tenure as National Chairman had since expired.
While agreeing with the appellants that the lower court erred in law by acknowledging Abure’s leadership, the apex court subsequently allowed the appeal and quashed the Court of Appeal judgment.
The Supreme Court further dismissed the cross-appeal filed by the Abure faction of the LP for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
