Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri
Crisis has hit the Labour Party in Imo State following report of sacking of the governorship candidate, Senator Athan Achonu, by a federal high court sitting in Bayelsa State, on Friday, which declared Joseph Ikechukwu Ukaegbu the authentic governorship candidate of the party in Imo State.
The judgment said to have been delivered by Justice Emma Akko, has enveloped the party with confusion.
According to Ukaegbu’s group, “There are still other court cases pending that if delivered would finally compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to officially upload the name of Ukaegbu as the authentic governorship candidate.
“If you go through the judgment you will find out that it was not only Imo State, it affected Bayelsa and kogi states. What it means was that governorship primaries conducted under Julius Abure, was null and void. Because the primaries were conducted when Abure was suspended from the party. So, whatever they did was not supported by law.
“By implication, the court has validated the primaries conducted by the Lamidi Apapa-led leadership. So we received it with gladness. In the next two to three weeks it will be done over who actually is the authentic governorship candidate of Labour Party in Imo State.”
But the Senator Achonu media group has said that they are still studying the case and would soon make their position known to the public through their legal team.
