Lp Crisis: Fresh Trouble For Abure As Caretaker Renews Prosecution Bid

John Alechenu

The crisis rocking the Labour Party LP resurfaced with the Senator Nanedi Usman-led Caretaker Committee insisting on prosecuting Comrade Julius Abure and some of the partys national officers for perjury, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

Chairman of the Nigerian Corruption Watch, Prince Dandy Rowland, who read the text of a press conference on behalf of Usman in Abuja on Monday, said it was mysterious that Abure and his cohorts were still roaming the streets despite a directive by the Inspector General of Police IGP to prosecute them.

Usman said, The Labour Party LP wishes to commend the Commissioner of Police, Legal Prosecution Section, Force Criminal Investigation Department FCID Force Headquarters Abuja, FCT, in the Office of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, who wrote to the Attorney General of the Federation AGF, and Minister of Justice on the 25th October, 2023, forwarding the duplicate case diary after establishing a culpable primary facie case for which the IGP authorized the prosecution of Julius Abure, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, Ojukwu Clement and Edward Nkwegu in the referenced case of perjury, forgery and criminal conspiracy CR: 3100/ X LEG/ FHQ/ ABJ/ VOL.II dated 25th October, 2023.

Usman went on to explain that It was further revealed from the Certified True Copies CTC of the documents obtained as uploaded in the INEC Portal for the Ebonyi State 2023 Gubernatorial elections, that Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim forged a court order with which they criminally and illegally removed the name of Oko Eze the validly nominated 2023 Labour Party LP Gubernatorial candidate even after the Supreme Court in its judgment held that Oko Eze was the validly nominated 2023 Labour Party Gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi State.