A former deputy chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, has approached the Supreme Court of Nigeria to assert himself as the authentic chairman of the party. Okafor claimed that the LP’s constitution still recognised him as the party’s substantive deputy chairman. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Friday, Okafor stated that he became LP chairman following the death of the previous chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, on December 29, 2020. He requested the apex court to declare his ouster as illegal, stating that there had been a consent judgement regarding his emergence.
Okafor also urged the Supreme Court to declare all actions taken by Julius Abure, the embattled chairman currently contesting his position, null and void. Abure and Lamidi Apapa are both also vying for the chairmanship of the party. The recent judgement by Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal High Court in Abuja barred Abure and his team from being recognized as national officers of the LP.
Okafor affirmed, “I am the only acting national chairman of the Labor Party. Every other person parading himself is fake. Lamidi Apapa and Abure are both fake. Apapa could have had a better emergence if there was no consent judgment. As it stands, Julius Abure is an illegal Labour Party chairman. The only leader the Labour Party has at the moment is Callistus Okafor, who is the acting national chairman recognized by the constitution of the Labour Party.”
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