The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party on Tuesday suspended Acting National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa and five others for alleged anti-party activities.
Others suspended are Alhaji Saleh Lawal (Deputy Secretary); Rawland Daramola (Financial Secretary); Prince Reuben Favour (Vice Chairman, Southsouth); Samuel Akingbade (Legal Adviser) and Mohammed Akali (Vice Chairman, Northeast).
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The NEC also upheld the decision of the Akure convention, which expelled the National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi.
FreshPage recalls that On April 6, Apapa and five others took over the affairs of the party following the ruling of a Federal High Court, which barred Julius Abure from parading himself as chairman of the party. The court also restrained three others from functioning.
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Acting on the order, Apapa, who doubles as the Vice Chairman (South), took over the party, pending the vacation of the court order.
But the NEC, during a meeting in Asaba, Delta State , announced the suspension of Apapa and his acting executive council.
It passed a vote of confidence on the Abure-led NWC at the meeting.
At yesterday’s NEC meeting were state chairmen; state secretaries; presidential candidate of the party Peter Obi; National Assembly members-elect, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
It was gathered that the meeting was called by Abure and the former National Secretary of the party, Umar Farouk.
The NWC has the power to summon a NEC meeting. Abure and Farouk are members of the NWC.
The NEC also extended the tenure of the present NWC of the party by one year.
