{"id":158562,"date":"2025-04-04T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:49:58","slug":"supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court sacks Abure as Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which recognized Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP).<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous judgment on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to pronounce Abure as the National Chairman of the LP, having earlier determined that the substance of the case was about the party\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that issues of leadership are internal affairs of a political party over which courts lack jurisdiction and noted that Abure\u2019s tenure had since expired.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court allowed the appeal filed by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman and one other, declaring it meritorious.<\/p>\n<p>It also dismissed the cross-appeal filed by the Abure faction of the LP for being unmeritorious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which recognized Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). In a unanimous judgment on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to pronounce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10161,1578,3634,254,620],"class_list":["post-158562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abure","tag-breaking","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court sacks Abure as Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which recognized Julius Abure as the Natio ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court sacks Abure as Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which recognized Julius Abure as the Natio ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T14:44:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T15:49:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743769194.435898.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"313\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Supreme Court sacks Abure as Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-04T14:44:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T15:49:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743769194.435898.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abure\",\"breaking\",\"Labour Party\",\"Nigeria\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-sacks-abure-as-labour-partys-national-chairman\",\"name\":\"Supreme Court sacks Abure as Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman - 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