
Julius Abure
He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, Abure is definitely being sponsored by the people in power because there is no other explanation for the Attorney General refusing to prosecute his case despite lots of investigation by the Inspector General of Police.
He added that somebody connected is surely backing Abure, but he does not want to mention any names.
His words, “This propaganda machine that Abure has can distort anything. If you are talking about going to the Supreme Court, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: what is the judgment? You need to see the judgment that you will take to the Supreme Court. If you look at even what they put up, the Appeal Court says that the issue of leadership of the LP at the lower courts was an academic exercise, which means that it shouldn’t have been in the first place. That means that the whole thing about Abure being the leader of the LP, in that judgment, is not an issue. So, we only waited to see and study the CTC before taking action. They also mentioned that the court doesn’t have jurisdiction or have any business with the determination of the leadership of a party. So, if the Appeal Court says that a lower court does not have any business with the leadership of a party, then the Appeal Court itself should not also have any business with the leadership. So, they cannot make a pronouncement on an issue they say a lower court does not have any business with.
Now, the matter takes us back to a judgment that cannot be appealed, which is the consent judgment still in place. It has not been vacated and it cannot be vacated because it’s a consent judgment. It was not inherited by Abure but entered into and signed by him. So, since we know that Abure is being sponsored by the people who want to destabilise the Labour Party, we also know there is a limit to which you can attempt to destroy or succeed in destroying a party, especially if that party belongs to an institution. This is not a party that some people got together to establish so, maybe when they die, you will not know who owns or founded it. This is not a party like any other party where you don’t have institutional membership. This is a party that has its owners as permanent and not individual members in the organs of the party.
Of course, you don’t need anybody to tell you that. If he’s not being sponsored by the people in power, how come the Inspector General of Police has written to the Attorney General to prosecute the case of this man we have investigated and you refuse? How come his national treasurer sent all the documents to the EFCC and even took the commission to court for refusing to prosecute him? They still refused to prosecute him despite all the documents and evidence that he forged the signature of a dead man as well as that of a judge. So how do you explain that somebody is not backing him? I don’t want to mention any names. Somebody must tell us who is behind this man who is now making him look larger than the government.”
WOW.