Labour Party: Abure Leadership Threatens Latest Dissident, Okafor With Contempt

The Julius Abure-led leadership of the Labour Party has vowed to press contempt charges against erstwhile national officer of the party, Callistus Okafor following his recent assertion that he had assumed the office of national chairman of the opposition party.

In a statement made available to GWG.ng, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiorah Ifoh warned Okafor that his declaration was a slap against past court judgments even as he labelled him a dramatist playing to drums of unknown political actors.

He said:

The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a news making the round in some media purportedly by Mr. Callistus Okafor who claimed to be part of the 2014 National Convention of the Labour Party and who today declared himself unilaterally as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

This latest development is coming after the judgement of a Federal High Court in Abuja which only recently validated the Nnewi Convention of the Labour Party that produced a new set of executives led by Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman.

We wish to state clearly that Callistus Okafor could pass as a dramatist who chose to dance to the gallery and entertain people. We seriously don’t know who is playing the drums for this erstwhile members of the party, even after two successful National Conventions have held and the party has since moved far beyond his imagination.

Nigerians will recall that Mr. Callistus Okafor also showed up in 2021 when he declared himself as the National Chairman of the party and proceeded to court and failed both in the High Court and also in the Appeal Court.

The Court of Appeal held clearly that Callistus Okafor cannot use the Consent Judgement to make himself the national chairman of the Labour Party. In fact, the court reprimanded him and dismissed his suit with substantial cost, which he is yet to meet till present. We are rather shocked and surprised that the same Okafor has come up again, abandoning and going against the Court of Appeal decision.

We want to remind Mr Okafor that his behavior by addressing the press today and addressing himself as the national chairman of the Labour Party is a contempt of court and that he should be ready to face the consequences. This will be our last warning as we will not hesitate to bring the full weight of the law on Mr. Okafor if he continues to progress on that trajectory.

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