Following the crisis rocking the Labour Party, a group known as Labour Party Patriotic Members Congress, LPPMC has called for an end to the litigation saying enough of collateral damage.
The group, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Dr Kingsley Okundaye and made available by the National Spokesperson, Hon Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu last week suggested way forward to find lasting solution to the crisis.
While congratulating Comrade Julius Abure over the Appeal Court ruling, LPPMC said the time is now for them to do the needful and heal the party.
The statement read: “The ruling of Wednesday, 6th March, 2024, by the Appeal Court that sat in FCT, the lead Judge, Justice Hamma Akawu Barka affirmed Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.
“As patriotic members of the Labour Party, we believe that the time is now for us to do the needful and heal the party.
“This legal duel had not only mired the party NWC into fierce and notorious leadership conundrum but had afflicted, bruised and caused the party dire but avoidable consequences with disintegration of the party leaderships in the States, losses in the off-season elections and the depletion of membership base across the Country.
“Sadly enough, no notable nor concerted efforts were made by the critical stakeholders of the party to mitigate and intervene in resolving the issue. Overtime, it cascaded and became a scathing challenge to the Party; leading to the recent patriotic and albitrative intervention of our group – the Labour Party Patriotic Members Congress(LPPMC), in trying to restore Peace and Unity.
“We engaged the critical stakeholders of the party in a meeting held on the 25th Jan, 2024. The said meeting was to provoke genial conversations and proffer vital solutions for perpetual unity, peace, and progress in the party leaderships.
“A strong RESOLUTION was reached as a panacea to instill the desired peace into the Party. However, with the ruling by the Appeal Court in Abuja, our job is now made a whole lot easier in fostering the much touted peace. As we sincerely and heartily congratulate Comrade Julius Abure and his national leadership, we graciously recommend the following as the way forward:
“1. The leadership should engage in an unbaised harmonisation of our fragmented membership structures at all levels towards building a stronger, united, and peaceful Party across the nation.
“2. We plead that all parties are to withdraw their pending Cases in Courts, imbibe the spirit of patriotism and sportmanship, shealth their swords, and give peace a chance. THERE MUST BE AN END TO LITIGATION. They should enforce this peaceful clarion call on their followers as to move this party forward as a united front.
“3. The LPPMC is open and willing to PARTNER with the National and State leaderships of the party to engage in swift, comprehensive membership drive across the nation. Thus, we seize this opportunity to plead with all the faithful pro-LP Obi-dient Families to go and obtain the LP membership Cards in their various Wards.
“4. Finally, we call on the party Stakeholders, members and Obi-dient families alike, to rally round the National leadership to birth that LP of our collective dream; with special interest in ensuring that we win both the Edo and Ondo States’ gubernatorial elections come September and November this year respectively. We as a body shall complement any commitment that will engender the required victories in the aforementioned state elections.”
