{"id":59702,"date":"2025-01-17T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59702"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:54:11","slug":"appeal-court-confirms-julius-abure-as-labour-party-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/17\/appeal-court-confirms-julius-abure-as-labour-party-national-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Confirms Julius Abure as Labour Party National Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reaffirmed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party, dismissing legal challenges against his leadership.<br \/>\nDelivering judgment on Friday, Justice Hamma Barka, leading a three-member panel, upheld the court\u2019s earlier decision of November 13, 2024, confirming Abure\u2019s position as undisputed.<br \/>\nThe ruling followed two appeals filed by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, the Labour Party\u2019s caretaker committee, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<br \/>\nJustice Barka emphasized that party leadership matters are not justiciable and fall outside the court&#8217;s jurisdiction.<br \/>\nThe appellate court also nullified an October 8, 2024, Federal High Court ruling by Justice Emeka Nwite, declaring it void due to lack of jurisdiction.<br \/>\n\u201cAbure remains National Chairman of the Labour Party,\u201d the court declared.<br \/>\nFurther legal implications of the ruling are expected to unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reaffirmed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party, dismissing legal challenges against his leadership. Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Hamma Barka, leading a three-member panel, upheld the court\u2019s earlier decision of November 13, 2024, confirming Abure\u2019s position as undisputed. The ruling followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59704,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59702\/revisions\/59704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}