{"id":199223,"date":"2026-04-21T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:20:43","slug":"labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party rejects Appeal Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Labour Party Nigeria has rejected a recent Appeal Court ruling on its leadership dispute, insisting that the judgement is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The development was disclosed in a statement shared on April 21 2026, on the official page of the party.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the National Chairman of the party Julius Abure, faulted the court\u2019s decision, arguing that it contradicts established legal principles regarding the internal affairs of political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Abure maintained that issues relating to party leadership remain internal matters, adding that previous court decisions have upheld that position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen what transpired today at the Appeal Court, the judgement is not acceptable to all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed claims that the tenure of the current leadership had expired, stating that a valid convention held in March 2024 in Nnewi still subsists.<\/p>\n<p>The party chairman further described the meeting in Umuahia, which led to the emergence of a caretaker committee, as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that only recognised party leadership has the authority to convene such meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Abure, however, confirmed that the party has commenced legal steps to challenge the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to appeal that decision, we will move to the Supreme Court,\u201d he added.<\/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 Labour Party Nigeria has rejected a recent Appeal Court ruling on its leadership dispute, insisting that the judgement is unacceptable. The development was disclosed in a statement shared on April 21 2026, on the official page of the party. According to the statement, the National Chairman of the party Julius Abure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":199221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-199223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria"],"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>Labour Party rejects Appeal Court ruling - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Labour Party Nigeria has rejected a recent Appeal Court ruling on its leadership dispute, insisting that the judgeme ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Labour Party rejects Appeal Court ruling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Labour Party Nigeria has rejected a recent Appeal Court ruling on its leadership dispute, insisting that the judgeme ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-21T17:00:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-21T18:20:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776795396.306131.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Labour Party rejects Appeal Court ruling\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-21T17:00:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-21T18:20:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\"},\"wordCount\":217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/sm_1776795396.306131.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/labour-party-rejects-appeal-court-ruling\",\"name\":\"Labour Party rejects Appeal Court ruling - 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