Labour Party Dismisses as Fake Alleged Bayelsà Court Ruling on Leadership Dispute
The leadership of Labour Party in Bayelsa State has dismissed as “false” and “without proof” the alleged ruling of the State High Court sitting in Yenagoa on the leadership dispute in the party.describing it as totally fake.
According to the State Legal Adviser, Barr.kikanwa Linda Enu Timipre, there was never a suit instituted in the Bayelsa State High Court let alone the action being dismissed for want of merit and jurisdiction.
Some unidentified persons had recently in a publication claimed that the State High Court in Yenagoa had dismissed a lawsuit filed by State chairmen loyal to Julius Abure, the constitutionally elected National Chairman of the Labour Party at the Nnewi Convention of March 27,2024.
In the publication, they also claimed that the dismissal follows a Supreme Court judgment on April 4, 2025, which sacked Abure and declared his tenure expired as National Chairman which is also entirely false as the court has made it explicitly clear that matters of party leadership is entirely a party affair.
The publication also claimed that the high court noted that Nenadi Esther Usman Interim National Caretaker Executives were on the side of truth, legality, and party integrity.
But reacting to the development, the Legal Adviser of the Labour Party in Bayelsà State, Barr.kikanwa Linda Enu Timipre, in a statement issued on Thursday, argued that the claims by these unidentified persons or those presumably from Nannadi Usman group or enemies of the party, on the existence of a suit at the State High Court on party leadership dispute or ruling of the court, is false.
According to the statement from the State party Legal Adviser, “My attention has been drawn to a press release by an unnamed person, presumably from the Nannadi Usman group or enemies of the party.
“It’s important to categorically state that no action was instituted in the Bayelsa State High Court by any Julius Abure loyalist, let alone dismissed for want of merit or jurisdiction. I challenge them or anyone, in stricter terms, to provide proof of a suit instituted in the Bayelsa State High Court.”
“Secondly, the suit instituted in the Federal High Court sitting in Bayelsa State, was voluntarily withdrawn by the plaintiff on the grounds that the reliefs sought had been addressed by INEC in a letter dated 16th February 2026, and the court struck out the suit at no cost.”
