The Council of Chairmen of the Labour Party (LP) has asked the leadership of the party to hold an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting without further delay following the crisis in the party.

This was contained in a communique at the end of their meeting, signed by their chairman, Chief Rotimi Kehinde.

At the meeting held at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, the chairmen’s forum said the recent development in the party, where a few members of the NWC led by Comrade Apapa Lamidi, declared themselves the new leadership of the party, was reviewed.

Part of the communiqué reads, “Barr Julius Abure remains the National Chairman of LP and Comrade Apapa Lamidi’s action along with his gang is accordingly repudiated and cannot stand.

“The council directed those who grossly violated the provision of the party’s constitution by taking internal matters of the party to court without exhausting all the appropriate instituted channels to resolve disputes, to immediately effect withdrawal of the matter from the court and return to the part of rectitude for due process.”

(Daily Trust)