The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has weighed in on the crisis rocking the party and the travails of the embattled national chairman of the party, Julius Abure.
Speaking on Tuesday at the LP National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Asaba, Delta State, Obi said the matter of the party’s chairmanship is still in court and he respects judicial process.
The LP was hit by a post-election crisis after their fine showing at the just concluded general elections.
Recall that a Federal High Court, in Abuja, had ordered Abure to stay away from parading himself as the national chairman of the LP a week after a ward in the Edo State chapter of the party suspended him over alleged anti-party activities.
Immediately after the court order, LP’s national vice chairman, Lamido Bashir Apapa, who had been accused of being sponsored by opposition parties, took over the party in an acting capacity.
But in another twist, a High Court in Benin also gave an order restraining anybody from removing the embattled party chairman from his office.
However, when asked to comment on the leadership crisis rocking the LP and its embattled national chairman, Obi said that Abure remains his own man amid the leadership crisis rocking the party.
He, however, stated that “The case is in court. I have respect for that, but he remains my own man.”