Edo LP senator, Ned Imasuen backs Julius Abure’s sack as National Chairman

Edo South senator, Ned Imasuen, has backed the Supreme Court judgment that sacked Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

Imasuen, a member of the LP, lauded the apex court judgment during a media chat with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, in Benin City.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions noted that the embattled national chairman did not really have the interest of the party at heart but was running its affairs like a personal estate.

He, however, expressed fears of what would be the fate of the party now that Barrister Julius Abure has been sacked as the national chairman.

“Sincerely, I welcome the Supreme Court judgment that sacked Barrister Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party in Nigeria.

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“A lot has gone on in the Labour Party, and it is very unfortunate. So, Abure, who was the chairman at the time, in my opinion, really didn’t have a Labour party at heart because it became a personal thing.

“It became something that didn’t really matter to them, and it was like let’s fight and tear the party into pieces instead of preserving it. That sort of thing was not what I expected from someone who led the party at the time.

“And, so he has been dragging the party in and out of court and now that the Supreme Court has finally sealed it, so be it. It’s a welcome development.

“But the question for me and for all of us, now, is where do we go from here? Someone spoke with me on the matter early this morning, and I said I just hope that it’s not a little too late of what has just come up because the Labour Party is almost decimated.

“Most of the members have gone. Will this judgment bring them back? I don’t know. Will it energize those who are there now?, again, I don’t know,” he said.

The only Labour Party senator in Edo State at the National Assembly disclosed that no fewer than 300 petitions have been received by his committee since the inception of the 10th National Assembly.

He disclosed that about 20 of the petitions have so far been treated while some are at the final stages among others.

“My committee attended to a variety of petitions since the inception of the 10th National Assembly.

“The petitions are those received from individual senators or those addressed to the Senate President. Such petitions are oil spillage in the Niger Delta, whether it’s somebody that has been rusticated from the university.

“Whether it’s someone who felt or who feels that he has been denied promotion, whether it is somebody who in the military feels that he has been unjustly sent out of the military, whether it’s somebody who believes that the promotion due him has been denied him, all manners of complaints, petition come to my table,” he added