By John Ogunsemore
The Senator representing Anambra Central, Victor Umeh has charged Julius Abure to bow out of the party in obedience to the Supreme Court verdict on his stay as party chairman.
Umeh said this as a guest on Channels TV‘s Politics Today programme on Thursday.
According to him, the apex court judgement has shut the door on Abure, who must now humbly vacate the party’s leadership.
“The door has been shut on him (Abure), and the only thing left to him is for him to reflect over the admonishment given to him by the Supreme Court that officers of a party should be humble enough to leave office when their tenure expires.
“His tenure has expired, he knows it, and he is in breach of an agreement which became a consent judgement of the Federal High Court that he should do the following things, and he refused to do them. From that time till today, Abure has not held any congress anywhere,” the senator said.
He said the only option left for Abure would be to accept the olive branch extended by the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee of the party and join the process to test his popularity and find out if the party members still wanted him to continue as chairman.
He said as a former national chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), he is best positioned to advise Abure and had done so on several occasions but was rebuffed.
The senator maintained that Abure cannot make himself chairman without going through the process to get him reelected.