Party politics: INEC, Presidency Complicits in Sustaining illegality to undermine Labour Party - Eragbe

 

Labour Party (LP) Press Statement : "COURT STOPS ABURE FROM GOING AHEAD WITH HIS ILLEGAL CONGRESSES

The general public, particularly all Labour Party (LP) supporters across the country, are hereby notified that on 26th November, 2025, the High Court of Abia State sitting in Isiala Ngwa granted an interim order in Suit No: HIN/47/2025. 

The order, sought by Hon. (Sir) Emmanuel Nwaeze Otti, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Barr. Julius Abure and his illegal National Working Committee from proceeding with their purported and unlawful ward, local government, and state congresses.

The Labour Party (LP) therefore urges its teeming members nationwide to completely disregard the so-called illegal and unlawful congresses being promoted by Julius Abure and his associates. 

These illegal exercises have already been declared null and void by a court of competent jurisdiction. As a law-abiding political party, we enjoin all our members to respect and comply with the court’s directive. 

The Labour Party congresses will commence soon, and members will be duly informed once the details are finalised.

In the same vein, the Labour Party calls on the Inspector-General of Police, who is the 6th Defendant/Respondent in the matter, to ensure the arrest and prosecution of anyone organising or participating in any purported Labour Party congresses scheduled for 2nd, 4th, or 6th December, 2025 or on any other dates, except such activities are duly authorised by the legitimate leadership of the Party headed by Senator Nenadi Usman.

Furthermore, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who is the 7th Defendant/Respondent, being a responsible and law-abiding institution, is advised to dissociate itself from this illegality being orchestrated by individuals determined to tarnish the hard-earned reputation of the Commission. 

In line with the Electoral Act and all relevant laws, the Labour Party (LP) will formally notify INEC of its authentic activities once its timetable for congresses and convention is released.

Ife Salako

Interim National Publicity Secretary

Labour Party (LP)

1st December, 2025

BREAKING NEWS: A High Court In Abia State Restrained INEC From Recognizing Barr Julius Abure Nor Monitoring His Purported Congresses

A High Court of Abia State of Nigeria on Monday Restrained the Nigeria's Electoral umpire the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) from recognizing Barr Julius Abure nor monitoring his purported congresses slated for 2nd, 4th and 6th of December, 2025.

Barrister Julius Abuse and Alhaj Lamidi Apapa against the Supreme Court ruling, for their selfish gains are working with the Presidency to ensure the distablisation of the major opposition political party in the country, Labour Party.

Victory For Democracy Against Trampling on the Supreme Court Judgement of 4th April 2025 in Suit No: SC/CV/56/2025 & LP NEC Resolutions of 18th July 2025 and the Federal High Court Judgement of 15th August 2025

 

COMMUNIQUE: Southwest Labour Party Leaders Back Senator Nenadi Usman Led National Working Committee

call on the Political Commissions of the NLC and TUC to urgently rescue the Party from political  impostors

Nenadi 

The labour party leadership in the Southwest have thrown their weight behind the Supreme Court recognized Senator Nenadi Usman Led National Working Committee of the party in Nigeria.

The South West Leaders in a Communique to the Nenadi led Leadership on Wednesday dissociated itself from the illegal Communique circulated on behalf of the sacked former National Chairman of the party Julius Abure, reaffirmed the Senator Nenadi Usman led National Working Committee as the sole authentic leadership of the Labour Party in Nigeria.

FULL COMMUNIQUE BELOW;

 COMMUNIQUE OF THE MEETING OF SOUTHWEST STAKEHOLDERS OF THE LABOUR PARTY (LP).

Sequel to the online meeting of the Labour

Party Leaders and Stakeholders of the South West Zone on 26th November, 2025, which centered on the State of the Labour Party in Nigeria and the South West:

The group dissociated itself from the illegal Communique circulated on behalf of the sacked former Chairman Julius Abure, on social media platforms as the South West position on Labour Party issues.

The Stakeholders having critically assessed the state of affairs of the Party in the country and in each state of the South West especially from 2023 to date agreed as follows:

1. Reaffirmed the Senator Nenadi Usman led National Working Committee as the sole authentic leadership of the Labour Party in Nigeria.

2. Urged INEC to do the needful by obeying the Supreme Court Judgement and officially recognizing the Nenadi Usman led National Working Committee of the Party.

3. Requested the Senator Nenadi Usman led National Working Committee to live up to expectations by immediately organizing all Party structures in the States, Local Governments, Wards and Polling Units in preparation for Congress and our National Convention.

4. Formally recognized the victimisation faced by many party Loyalists in the South West as a consequence of the so called Abure and Apapa group closely working with the APC/Tinubu Presidency hell bent on their mission to destabilize the party as a means of cashing out from their pay masters.

5. Finally South West Stakeholders called on the Political Commissions of the NLC and TUC to urgently rescue the Party from political jobbers and opportunists like Julius Abure and his fellow impostors.

Signed

Southwest Labour Party Leaders

PRESS RELEASE - RE: FAKE COMMUNIQUE FROM IMPOSTORS; A SUPREME COURT-MANDATED INTERIM EXECUTIVE IS IN CHARGE OF THE LABOUR PARTY

Date: November 26, 2025

The attention of the authentic leadership and membership of the Labour Party (LP) in the South-West Geo-Political Zone has been drawn to a fictitious and misleading communique purportedly issued by a "South-West Chairmen & Secretaries Caucus" on November 21, 2025.

We wish to state categorically that this document is the handiwork of impersonators and suspended members loyal to the sacked former National Chairman, Mr. Julius Abure. This communique is not only null and void but also a brazen act of contempt against the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

The general public, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and all stakeholders are hereby urged to disregard this communique in its entirety as it is built on a foundation of falsehood and illegality.

For clarity, we state the following incontrovertible facts, now further reinforced by fresh and comprehensive judicial pronouncements:

1. The Supreme Court Has Spoken Conclusively: The authority of the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Interim National Executive is rooted in the final judgment of the Supreme Court. 

       As confirmed in a recent statement, the latest judgment, August 15, 2025, from the Federal High Court in Abuja, which struck out a suit by Abure's faction for want of jurisdiction, aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025.

 That landmark ruling "unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party."

2. The Law is Binding on All: Pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the decision of the Supreme Court is binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria. 

The Abure faction, by continuing to parade itself as a legitimate organ of the party, is in gross violation of this constitutional provision.

3. The Legitimate Authority is Senator Nenadi Usman: 

Following these conclusive judicial pronouncements, the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Interim National Executive remains the only lawful body recognized by law to steer the affairs of the Labour Party. The Federal High Court's recent refusal to entertain the suit by Abure's faction is a clear testament to this reality.

4. The Ikeja Meeting is an Illegitimate Charade: The meeting held in Ikeja, Lagos, was an assembly of individuals acting upon a leadership mandate that has been nullified by the highest court in the land. They lack any legal or moral authority to convene or make decisions in the name of the Labour Party.

Rebuttal of Specific Falsehoods in the Communique:

5. On Congress dates and INEC Notification: The discussions on congresses are not only presumptuous but illegal. Only the legitimate Nenadi Usman-led Interim National Executive, operating under the authority of the Supreme Court's judgment, has the mandate to determine the timeline and modalities for our future party congresses.

6. On Reconciliation with the Apapa Faction: The so-called "unanimous approval" for the re-absorption of Alhaji Lamidi Apapa and Abayomi Arabambi is a fraudulent attempt by one nullified faction to absorb another. It is a meeting of ghosts, whose decisions have no place in the real Labour Party.

 The authentic party structure under Senator Nenadi Usman will determine any genuine reconciliation.

7. On the Proposed Press Conference: The planned press conference in Abeokuta is an attempt to create confusion and mislead the public. We warn media houses and the public not to lend their platforms to these individuals who are acting in defiance of a binding Supreme Court judgment.

Our Stance:

We, the authentic State Chairmen, Secretaries, and Leaders of the Labour Party across Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States, held a meeting this evening, November 26,

2025. We unanimously reaffirmed our total and unflinching support for the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Interim National Executive, whose authority is firmly rooted in the final judgment of the Supreme Court.

We are committed to working with this legitimate leadership to reposition the Labour Party, ensure true internal democracy and galvanize our members for the upcoming electoral cycles. The South-West Zone is united, law-abiding, and will not allow political buccaneers to destabilize our great party or hold the sanctity of the Judiciary in contempt.

Signed:

Comrade Kika Glasgow (Acting Publicity Secretary, South-West Zone)

OBIORA IFOH, CLEMENT OJUKWU & OTHER NDIGBOS AGAINST PETER OBI'S PRESIDENTIAL BID: IMPLICATIONS TODAY & FUTURE"

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OPEN REPLY TO OBIORA IFOH'S CLAIM LP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PUBLICITY SECRETARY NOT PARTY MEMBERS

By Prince Tony Akeni, (Interim Labour Party National Publicity Secretary)

HIGHLIGHT

"For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was abolished by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The national leadership stated that this was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of the Delta governors at the time, James Ibori and later Emmanuel Uduaghan. After entreaties to me by a delegation led by Emeka Nkwaola of Asaba textile union, I led remnants of the party in Delta state to Abuja to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, to unproscribe the Delta state chapter."

"The meeting which began with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration.

"After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution for Nigeria's workers and underprivileged Nigerians in general. Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." ...If the LU concept had been followed through by the Labour Party and the NLC, Labour University would have celebrated more than its 10th anniversary by this year.

"Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke.*

"At that time (in 2010), over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while somewhere in the west Arabambi was roaming in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither of the two was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

"Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

"While many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027.

"With opium abandon, they have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

"Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best shot for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed these Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future."

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Tony 

1.  I read with profound sympathy for Igbo nation and Peter Obi, in particular, the recent bad air from one Obiora Ifoh in his reaction to a private memo addressed to the Sen. Nenadi Usman led National Executive Council (NEC) and Board of Trustees of the Labour Party, which, unfortunately, leaked and found its way to the Nigeria public a few days ago through the Vanguard and Punch newspapers of October 17 and '18 respectively, amongst others.

2.  To begin, let me dismiss with despatch Obiora's misleading claim in the above referred Punch newspaper wherein he alleged that Labour Party's national chairman, Sen. Nenadi Usman, is not a member of the party because, according to Obiora, Sen. Nenadi is not in the membership register of Abure's dead NEC of the party. A rebel band which Nigeria's highest court, the Supreme Court, comprehensively sacked on April 4, 2025. 

3.  Mr. Obiora Ifoh and one Abayomi Arabambi, another political rodent in the Julius Abure colony of felony which specializes in candidate fraud, documents forgery, grand thefts and perjury, jointly share the same title of "National Publicity Secretary" in the Supreme Court sacked defunct Julius Abure council of the party; a crass misnomer against Labour Party's constitution.

4.  Together, these two creatures constitute the ugliest, ethically depraved noise drums in the political space of contemporary Nigeria. 

5.  First, why should any Labour Party member be found in the register of a council declared dead and buried by a terminal judgment of the highest court in the land? 

6.  Secondly, all courts of Nigeria, from the lowest to the apex court, scrutinized, certified and satisfied themselves of Sen. Nenadi Usman's membership of the Labour Party, hence she was recognized as having locus standi on behalf of the party in all suits she filed against the Abure swarm, all of which she won without exception, eternally annulling and obliterating Abure's impersonating group from existence.  

7.  Next, let's look up Comrade Tony Akeni's membership of the Labour Party and his leadership status in the party. He was also declared by Obiora as one not in their dead council's membership register.

8.  For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was proscribed by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The Nwanyanwu NEC held that the shutting down of the party in Delta was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of then Governor James Ibori and later Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.

9.  On June 12, 2010, remnant stakeholders of the disbanded Delta state LP led a delegation to me (Tony Akeni) in Benin as a Labour Party stalwart of the South-South states who was recommended to them for my reach across the party. The Delta LP delegation, led by Mr. Emeka Nkwaola of the Asaba textile union and comprising one Mr. Emmanuel Emuakpodje, Pastor Tracy Agol and others, had come to entreat me to lead them to Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to plead a case for lifting the suspension of the Delta state Labour Party chapter in order to enable them participate in elections in Delta state. 

10.  This later came to include the Delta state governorship re-run election of February 6, 2011, after Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, who was the Chief Judge of the Appeal Court Benin, in a seismic judgment that shook the country, sacked Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for electoral transgressions in the 2007 governorship election of Delta state. Justice Monica is presently the President of the Appeal Court of Nigeria, Abuja.

11.  On June 12, 2010, I was in a June 12 celebration podium at the centre of a sea of music fiesta crowds at Museum Ground, King's Square, Ring Road, Benin City, with Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, performing musicians Majek Fashek and Orits Wiliki, Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua and other dignitaries when the Emeka Nkwaola delegation from Delta state entreated me to a side canopy to explain their predicaments and entreaty to approach National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to unproscribe Delta Labour Party. 

12.  I was a co-coordinator of the June 12 rally in my capacity as Director of Mobilization of Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD), whose national leader was legal luminary Femi Falana (now SAN). Dr. Obayuwana was our state leader of the NUD, while Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua was our Edo state chapter chairman.

13.  Arriving Abuja the following week, the late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then the national secretary of Labour Party, received my delegation and heralded us to the front of Chief Dan Nwanyanwu. The meeting which started with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration. 

14.  After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution. 

15.  Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." He went on to narrate that while he was a struggling young man fresh out of school and used to travel by "luxurious buses" from the east to Lagos, he experienced how an entire jumbo bus would be stopped by pressed passengers to stop in the middle of nowhere, and passengers would run into the bush to relieve themselves. 

16.  Nwanyanwu said he afterwards at some forums suggested that toilet compartments should be built into luxurious buses. He narrated that a few years later, to his pleasant surprise, the first set of luxurious buses fitted with toilet closets arrived Nigeria. He concluded that my idea of a "Labour University for less privileged Nigeria workers and Nigerians in general" could see the light of day some day just like his closet idea in luxurious buses.

17.  After the Abuja delegation, Emeka Nkwaola of Imo state became the Delta state chairman of Labour Party, Emmanuel Emuakpodje of Kokori town, Delta Central, the state secretary, Emmanuel Amalokwe of Obiarukwu, Delta North, the organizing secretary and I, from Isoko nation, Delta South, the Delta state Labour Party publicity secretary, amongst others. Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and other persons mentioned above except A.A. Salaam and Majek Fashek are still alive to confirm this report. 

18.  Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke, in his office at Victoria Island, Lagos.

19.  Earlier, when Prof. Pat Utomi visited my kingdom of Ozoro in 2007 with his ADC presidential campaign train and was received in the home of 2nd Republic deputy Speaker of defunct Bendel State and 3rd Republic Senator, late Sen. Francis "Spanner" Okpozo, I, being a double-barrel prince of the kingdom, was by Sen. Okpozo's side to receive and hear Utomi on behalf of our palace political elite.

20.  Earlier in 2006 when the brilliant late Sen. Pius Ewherido, a former deputy Speaker of Delta state, came to Ozoro kingdom with his campaign entourage to sell his Delta governorship aspiration and Sen. Okpozo also received him on behalf of our kingdom, I was also delegated to receive him as observer on behalf of Ewherido's friends and associates of Ozoro kingdom. Pius attended Notre Dame College (NDC) Ozoro as a kid and had many friends and well-wishers in our kingdom. We were looking to convert him to the Labour Party if PDP missed him as their candidate.

21.  In the 2010 meeting with Chief Kokori in his home in Lagos, he addressed us on a wide range of issues from my entreaty of him to join the Labour Party as a veteran labour doyen, his arrest, torture and gulag travails during the June 12 struggle under tyrant Abacha to Chief Great Ogboru's contest-and-run-away perpetual governorship syndrome. You could feel intimately all over the war-tested labour veteran a traffic of exhaustion from moral betrayals and the agony of a loving one-woman man as he pointed upstairs over our heads, where he nursed his cherished wife who, he told us, had been bedridden for years. Chief Kokori concluded that day, "I don't have the energy to do this anymore. But maybe, for one last time because of your delegation, I will think over it." 

22.  That one last time made us to see him again, thin and bone weary, in Chief Ogboru's re-run governorship rally at Ughelli in 2011. He died a dozen years later on December 7, 2023 at the age of 80.

23.  Except late Chief Frank Kokori, Sen. Francis Okpozo and Sen. Pius Ewherido, all the persons mentioned above, fortunately, are alive. Go and verify, as Peter Obi would say.

24.  In 2010, over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while loitering somewhere in the west Arabambi was in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

25.  Quite ahead of me in LP affairs then were the irrepressible Veteran Comrade Lawson Osagie. Side by side Pa Victor Aguebor, Pa Irowa, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor (Ultimate Equals) and Pa Gabano, I held the Labour Party media trumpet in the background during the years of Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo state. 

26.  I was among the backroom influencers of the party when we organized and coordinated the Edo state Labour Party congress at Gabano Hotel, near Uniben, which brought Bishop Samuel Omede to office as Edo state LP chairman. Afterwards, from the dim backyards of his NIPOST employment Julius Abure clawed, scrambled and spidered his way into the spot of state secretary in Bishop Omede's state council of the Labour Party.

27.  Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

*Hold Up. Stand Up for Peter Obi*

28.  About 20years ago, I read the editorial of a Tanzanian newspaper that shook me to my bones from the acid contempt, even hate, with which many African nations see Nigeria and our country's internal politics.

29.  It stated that Nigeria was one of the most absurd countries in the world where its citizens reduce their best to their lowest worst. Citing the life and times of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to exemplify the point, the Tanzanian newspaper said Nigeria had achieved the unbelievable feat of reducing the great Nnamdi Azikiwe from "Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha."

30.  Together, African countries and the rest of the world are watching again. How, while many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, while fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027. 

31.  With opium abandon, some like Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu and Benjamin Kalu have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

32.  Great Nigerians like Femi Falana, Dele Farotimi, David Hundeyin (South-West), Yunusa Tanko, Haruna Goro, Nana Kazaure (North), Deacon Chris Iyovwaye, Smart Madu Ajaja, Aisha Yesufu, Magnus Oraka, Peter Akah (Niger Delta South-South), Reginald Nnorom, Precious Oruche "Mama Pee" (South-East) and many others have erased crooked old boundaries in Nigeria's political topography to prove that Nigeria can be one huge, united country and Africa's democratic powerhouse.

33.  Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best chance for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future.

34.  In our time, we must reject the poison of these Ndigbo wolves against Peter Obi's person and presidential project. We must reject the Tanzanian curse and stand up for Peter Obi in 2027, provided he stands up for himself by filtering out and disbanding his choristers of misleading praise singers, and rising above sycophancy indulgence to pillar his cause with genuine trench soldiers who tell him the truth that will lead to his victory.

35.  Peter Obi and our Labour Party NEC must rise with a sense of urgency to launch confidence building agenda of actions and activities that will encourage and strengthen our party's remaining few loyal elected members of the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly across the country. No effort should be spared to inspire them to remain true to the PO 2027 presidency project.

36.  In case Peter Obi and the Sen. Nenadi council are not adequately aware, currently these brave steadfast loyalists of our party are like forlorn IDP orphans in the National Assembly and various State Houses of Assembly. 

37.  They tip-toe about their daily activities within the National Assembly and State Assembly complexes to survive daily pressures on them to defect to the ruling APC and other ruling parties in various states. 

38.  They are under constant psychological onslaught of Tinubu's conquest storms under Senate President Godswill Akpabio's and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas' brinkmanship; an ancient Roman triumvirate determined to ensure Tinubu's wholesale state capture of Nigeria into a one-party banana pseudo-democracy. The time for all true Labour Party faithfuls to rally round them is now before it's too late.

God bless and keep us all, as many as will continue to stand tall by the truth and refuse to bow to Nigeria's god of cash-out corruption and political cash crops of compromised politics.

*Tony Akeni Le Moin*

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

PRESS RELEASE: INEC MUST RESPECT COURT JUDGEMENTS ON LABOUR PARTY (LP) LEADERSHIP

The Labour Party has noted, with deep concern, reports that the erstwhile National Chairman of the Party, Barr. Julius Abure, attended the quarterly consultative meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leaders of political parties held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025.

While this brazen act of impersonation may appear comical to some, it is, in truth, a tragic reflection of the extent to which certain elements within INEC are willing to compromise the integrity of the Commission by lending themselves to such ignoble conduct in utter defiance of valid and subsisting court judgements, including that of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

For the avoidance of doubt, on 4th April 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, delivered a unanimous landmark judgement unequivocally declaring that Barr. Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This pronouncement was further reinforced by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, delivered on 15th August 2025, which expressly rejected Julius Abure's prayers based on the earlier judgement of the apex court that held that he was no longer the national chairman of the Labour Party.

It is instructive to note that in the said latter suit, INEC itself deposed to a counter affidavit dated 13th August 2025, affirming under oath that Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

Against this background, therefore, the Labour Party views the conduct of certain rogue elements within INEC who permitted Abure’s attendance at the meeting as not only reprehensible but also a deliberate affront to the authority of our courts. INEC cannot, in one breath, depose under oath that Abure is no longer chairman, and in another, accord him recognition. Such conduct amounts to contempt of court and a grave desecration of the sanctity of our judicial system, particularly the pronouncements of the Supreme Court.

Even the former INEC leadership, despite its alleged partisanship and meddlesomeness, demonstrated better respect for the rule of law. On 29th July 2024, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu ordered Barr. Julius Abure out of its consultative meeting with political party leaders, on the clear grounds that he was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. That decision came even before the Supreme Court and Federal High Court judgements that have since laid the matter to rest.

The question, therefore, is: from where did the present actors within INEC derive the authority to override and overrule these court pronouncements and enable Abure’s participation in today’s meeting? This reckless display of impunity is unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.

While the current INEC leadership may be transitional, it must remember that even a brief tenure can leave a lasting stain on history. Every action taken today will be judged tomorrow. Posterity records everything.

The Labour Party therefore calls on INEC to immediately enforce the valid judgements of our courts regarding the leadership of the Party. If the current leadership lacks the courage to uphold the rule of law, it should at least refrain from further tarnishing what remains of the Commission’s credibility before its eventual exit.

Signed:

Ken Eluma Asogwa

Senior Special Adviser, Media, to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi E. Usman.

14th October, 202

POINT-BLANK: NEW INEC CHAIRMAN PROF. AMUPITAN — A REDEEMER OR ANOTHER HOPE BETRAYED, TIME WILL TELL - LABOUR PARTY

By Prince Tony Akeni



"Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure...

"As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion *WILL ASK* , what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


"That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place."

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Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan has a fate larger than life thrust at his feet. To either redeem the largest democracy in Africa or further mutilate and bury its corpse which the ballot master-liar of all time, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, has left behind as INEC chairman.

Above the pecks, glamour and glitter of the highly visible office which Prof. Amupitan now occupies, he must choose what he wishes to achieve and be remembered for.

He must choose who he will serve and the legacy he wishes to leave behind for his name and posterity.

He must choose whether to be honoured by more than 230million Nigerians who employed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu or to serve the unconstitutional wishes and caprices of a single man, Tinubu, who appointed him.


To help him make that choice, Prof. Amupitan will do well to reflect how more than 230million Nigerians at home and all over the world will forever remember his immediate predecessor, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood.


Under the Obasanjo years, when Nigerians' thought Prof. Maurice Iwu, the INEC chairman at the time, was the worst electoral referee that happened to Nigeria, Prof. Attahiru Jega happened to Nigeria and erased that record. This was to the extent that one Elder Godsday Orubebe, who was the Minister of Niger Delta in the Jonathan administration of the time, screamed blue murder and embarked on a one-man rampage against INEC at the 2015 presidential election collation centre in front of the world press and international election observers.


At the close of that era when Nigerians' thought that it was impossible to manufacture a worse election overseer than Jega, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood came to mortally mar the mood and seal the hopes of Nigerians that elections could ever be free, fair or credible in our country, destroying the last vestige of Nigeria's electoral integrity almost to the point of no redemption.


Before Mahmood's tenures as INEC chairman, Nigerians merely lamented if their votes would count but with some reservoir of hope. However, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood buried that hope and made it a proverb of despair set in concrete, creating an endemic voter apathy throughout Nigeria that has no comparison in any other country in Africa and almost the whole world.


In the run-up to the epic 2023 general elections, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood promised Nigerians and the world in countless media briefings that ballot results would be transmitted in real-time from the polling units and entered from BIVAS records to the IREV servers for global integrity.


Mahmood promised this would be a process that shall not be compromised, violated or accepted by INEC, only to brazenly take the opposite stand against his sworn process by dismissing BIVAS results as non-compulsory in the collation of election results. He and his returning electoral commissioners across the country then uploaded insanely mutilated and duplicated result sheets supplied by the ruling party to announce the 2023 results, stood by those mutilations at the post-election tribunals, and returned the snatch-and-run-with-it concoctions of the presidential election, numerous governorship and countless National and State Assembly results as winners against the actual landslide presidential victory of the Labour Party and similar victory by other opposition political parties at different tiers of the polls.


As his last achievement for the ruling APC, at the end of which President Tinubu gave him a parting send-off with the national award of Commander of the Order of the Niger, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood also successfully pulled off a historic pre-election heist to make rigging easier for the ruling party in 2027 by manufacturing out-of-the-world phantom records of new voters registration in President Tinubu's home state of Osun.


Mahmood awarded a record 393,269 new voters in Osun state alone against just 1,998 new voters in the entire five South-East states combined. Nearly half a million new voters in the single state of Osun which has a population of 4.6million citizens, and less than 2,000 new voters in all the five states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo which command over 36million citizens!


Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure. Mission accomplished, national award received, evil done and dusted, APC's 2027 victory guaranteed! So they think.


As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion, what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place.


For the Labour Party, the first all-important litmus test that the new INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, will pass to prove that he has come to serve Nigeria in ernest of his oath of office is to remove the last dust and trace of Julius Abure and his defunct council members from INEC's portal and replace them with the Nenadi Usman led council which the statutory NEC of the party has submitted as its executive council. This will be in accord with the Supreme Court's judgment that the leadership of political parties is strictly the result of the internal decision and processes of parties. This also complies with both Nigeria's and global conventions which forbid leadership vacuum in the management of public institutions.


As Prof. Joash Amupitan steps into the shoes of his departed predecessor, he must realize that he is not only on the radar of Nigerians but the entire civilize world, the West and emerging democracies of the world which look unto Nigeria for good or bad examples.



Amupitan must prove to the world that he is not another election puppet out to serve the dictates of incumbents and ballot vampires for his personal enrichment at the expense of Nigeria's international image, global respect, progress and advancement, like most of his predecessors, but a true electoral umpire out to serve and save our country's long troubled democracy.



What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Nothing but eternal condemnation. Both the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran agree on this at Mark 8:36 and Q57:20 respectively.



Joash Amupitan, get off the gory road of power vapour and walk the glory road of eternity's favour.




Prince Tony Akeni,

Labour Party National

Publicity Secretary (Interim)

LABOUR PARTY, ABURE-MAMA PEE SAGA: NIGERIA ACTIVISTS PROTECTION THROUGH "PROJECT YELLOW PAGE" NOW — LP Publicity Secretary

POINT-BLANK

To Nigerians, the Labour Party asks you to lace your boots for the journey to 2027... The attack on Mama Pee is not the last of its type but actually a specimen of things to come.

Just hours before going to press, in a country having an Inspector-General of Police and police personnel throughout the nation, Army, Air Force, Navy, DSS secret police and dozens of other armed services at federal and state levels with a combined manpower of over one million uniformed armed personnel, Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle, the chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who goes by the nickname Sego, openly threatened Nigerians in Lagos with death if they failed to vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.

"In a viral video he boasted on behalf of his mob's paymasters that the electoral bloodshed that brought Tinubu to power in 2023 shall be a child's play compared to what is coming in 2027. He was simply invited by DSS, patted on the back and let go, confirming the national alert which the Atiku Givus Obi 2027 (AGOBI '27) campaign coalition raised less than two weeks ago.

"So, Labour Party Obidients, coalition partners, progressives and freedom campaigners in every corner of our country, prepare to do what Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, the chairman of Edo state Obidient chapter, did. Wherever in Nigeria the vultures swoop on one of your own, the eagles must leave their nests. And land in swift, massive, unintimidatable and indomitable human deluge to work with lawful but unyielding determination to rescue their own as the Edo state Obidients demonstrated with Ms. Precious Oruche...

"The compilation of Nigeria's and Africa's first ever Yellow Page Directory of Human Rights Activists nationwide a critical answer against prepaid violence before the elections, organized ballot sabotage and similar tyranny projects of the APC junta between here and 2027...

In order to properly understand without bias the airport incident of Saturday September 27th between Ms. Precious Oruche, also known to many as Mama Pee, go back to the first video of their encounter that morning while on the check-in queue of the Air Max flight.

2.  Following the video closely and honestly, Ms. Precious started the Abuja airport encounter when she asked the Supreme Court sacked former chairman of Labour Party: "Are you not Julius Abure?... What are you doing with the Labour Party after you destroyed the 'party?" In reply Abure asked: "How? How can?"

3.  Very next to that, Julius Abure's younger brother, one John Abure, standing by his side in the video, escalated the encounter into combat mode by spitting the words at Mama Pee: "Are you mad?" to which Mama Pee replied in kind.

4.  Note that at this point, neither Mama Pee nor the "Are you mad" aggressor, John Abure, committed any crime. This is according to Nigeria law and standing court judgment. For avoidance of doubts one of several such judgments is cited below.

5.  In Bakare v. Ishola and Ibeanu v. Uba, the court ruled that calling someone a thief or ex-convict in anger amounts to “vulgar abuse,” not defamation. 

6.  In Prof. Farooq Kperogi's review of similar scenarios during the now quiet Deji Adeyanju-Peter Obi spat last August, the erudite United States based Nigerian professor stated, "Judges hold that such insults are commonly understood in our (Nigeria's) national culture as expressions of angered even if not factual claims, similar to what’s known as 'rhetorical hyperbole' in U.S. media law."

7.  In his essay _'Litigation Terrorism of Governors Ortom, el-Rufai, Mr. Fani-Kayode and (then Vice President) Yemi Osinbajo,'_ Prof. Kperogi drove the point home by stating that "prominent politicians who (provoked enough to exercise their constitutional right to do so) sue private citizens are cowards who derive strength from intimidating weaker targets and who treasure the privileges of being in the public eye but chafe (are uncomfortable) at the scrutiny that comes with it." (Farooq Kperogi, October 10, 2020)

8.  It will be recalled that one Abayomi Arabambi, a see-through double-agent serving the ruling party in partnership with Abure, the Supreme Court sacked chairman of the Labour Party, has since 2023 ceaselessly fabricated grievous, life-threatening allegations, including coup plotting treason against Mr. Peter Obi, NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero and other high-placed leaders of the Nenadi led Labour Party. The reactionary supporters of the oppressive regime and freelance critics of Ms. Precious Oruche have been enjoying Arabambi's character assassination against Obi without a condemning word. Yet because of his large-hearted tolerance depths and sound knowledge of defamation judgments of the Nigerian justice system highlighted above, Mr. Obi has not dignified the Arabambi-Abure blackmail joint venture with one word, extremely dangerous as those allegations are.

9.  Under Nigeria's laws and global justice systems, the real crime committed in the entire Abure-Precious Oruche episode began aboard the Max Air aircraft at the Abuja end of the trip. It climaxed when the flight touched down in Benin and the Abures made good their threats of raw physical violence by mobilizing a mob of over fifteen youths against one woman, Mama Pee, all in broad daylight. 

10.  From Labour Party's investigations concluded on the night of October 2nd, the attacks were masterminded by John Abure, an ill-mannered combative character well-known for habitual death threats and diarrhea temperament against anyone who dare criticize his elder brother Julius Abure for the countless crises of the party, Labour Party ballot betrayals and candidate swindles during his chairmanship tenure.

11.  Labour Party investigations and interviews with airport staff at the originating Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport end, Max Air airborne staff and co-passengers of the September 27th flight tracked down in Benin and Sapele, stated that before takeoff John Abure made three attempts inside the plane to attack Mama Pee in her seat. The eyewitnesses said John Abure was held down with great commotion by other passengers, witnessed by flight attendants. At least three witnesses have vowed to testify in court with video evidence. 

12.  Similarly, staff and shop keepers at the Benin airport end testified witnessing with shock the violent attacks on Mama Pee and destruction of her phone in front of mixed public. Another set of witnesses here have also volunteered to testify in court with phone evidences.

13.  Eight of the thugs, undeniably contracted by the Abures for mayhem, were arrested by the Benin Airport police and detained. Two of them mysteriously disappeared after apparent conduit negotiations. The two who escaped rushed to Edo state police headquarters to scheme the detention of Ms. Precious in order to have the advantages of complainant and make their victim, Precious, the accused. But timely, effective mobilization and arrival of Edo state Obidient crowds at the police headquarters led by the movement's state chapter chairman, Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, and the sincerity of the Edo state Commissioner of Police, CP Monday Agbonika, who did a personal professional investigation of the incident, prevented the unjust detention of Ms. Precious. The Labour Party sincerely thanks the Edo state Police Commissioner and members of our Obidient family in the Heartbeat state.

14.  The Labour Party salutes our daughter in the struggle for a better Nigeria, the irrepressible Ms. Precious Oruche, known also as Mama Pee. If 5% of Nigerian youths who presently prefer thug crumbs in ruling parties have the outstanding courage against bad governance as Mama Pee, Peter Akah, King Dele Farotimi, Femi Falana (SAN) and other shining examples like them, Nigeria would have been free many years ago.

15.  We ask Ms. Oruche not to despair or let her spirit be dampened by the tiny few agents of oppression who prosper from misrule and widespread corruption of Nigeria, some of who cowardly troll her. She must keep the thought close to her chest always that many years, even centuries after the oppressors of today and their collaborating worshippers who are at ease with injustice are gone from the earth, Ms. Precious Oruche the Edo adopted Freedom Fighter will be remembered, printed and honoured in the history books of the freedom struggles of Nigeria, Africa and the world till Christ's return. 

16.  The deserted Abure-Arabambi APCLP and their Edo state trading post headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie have vowed to prosecute Mama Pee with a fictitious bishop invented into the Max Air flight as their phantom witness. Labour Party wishes to encourage the Julius Abure APCLP to hurry up actualize their threats to prosecute Ms. Precious Oruche for mere verbal exchange with the Abures. We ask government to grant their wish and pray that they would not chicken out. This is so that Nigerians and the world could see how the Nigerian justice system works, and how much more severely government will prosecute the cowardly criminals who savagely attacked a lone woman, caused her bodily harm and destroyed her properties, including a prized phone. These are in addition to broad-day murder threats and ambush laid at Benin Airport by John and Julius Abure's thugs in the glare of staff and traveling public, evidences of which have been amply captured on camera.

17.  To the Abure-Ativie APCLP mob, the Labour Party will meet you in court and treat your multiple felonies against the Nigerian people with deterrent despatch. May the gods you serve give you sufficient courage not to back out.

18.  To Nigerians, the Labour Party asks you to lace your boots for the journey to 2027. Let it be known that the attack on Mama Pee is not the last of its type but actually a specimen of things to come.

19.  Just hours before going to press, in a country having an Inspector-General of Police and police personnel throughout the nation, Army, Air Force, Navy, DSS secret police and dozens of other armed services at federal and state levels with a combined manpower of over one million uniformed armed personnel, Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle, the chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who goes by the nickname Sego, openly threatened Nigerians in Lagos with death if they failed to vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.

20.  In a viral video he boasted on behalf of his mob's paymasters that the electoral bloodshed that brought Tinubu to power in 2023 shall be a child's play compared to what is coming in 2027. He was simply invited by DSS, patted on the back and let go, confirming the national alert which the Atiku Givus Obi 2027 (AGOBI '27) campaign coalition raised less than two weeks ago.

*Refer:* https://www.jungle-journalist.com/what-happened-in-2023-would-be-childs-play-lagos-nurtw-chairman-sego-threatens-voters-with-death-over-2027-elections/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/09/atiku-obi-must-unite-or-prepare-to-hand-tinubu-a-second-term-coalition/

21.  So, Labour Party Obidients, coalition partners, progressives and freedom campaigners in every corner of our country, prepare to do what Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, the chairman of Edo state Obidient chapter, did. Wherever in Nigeria the vultures swoop on one of your own, the eagles must leave their nests. And land in swift, massive, unintimidatable and indomitable human deluge to work with lawful but unyielding determination to rescue their own as the Edo state Obidients demonstrated with Ms. Precious Oruche. 

22.  To serve this solidarity project in a coordinated, sustainable, result guaranteeing manner, there is need for Obidients all over Nigeria and beyond our borders to work together with the Labour Party and a civil society partnership project called "Nigeria Civil Rights Yellow Page (NCS-YP)." 

23.  The first in Africa and certainly the world, it is a democracy project being proposed to Labour Party by a coalition of civil society and electoral amendment campaigners which involves compilation and publication of a comprehensive directory of Nigeria's human rights, civil rights, environmental rights, women rights, children advocacy rights, internally displaced persons' rights activists and pro-democracy journalists throughout Nigeria, compiled LGA by LGA and state by state. 

24.  The novel Yellow Page directory is a critical answer against prepaid violence before the 2027 elections, organized ballot sabotage during the elections and similar tyranny projects of the APC junta between here and 2027.

25.  Designed to have both physical and online versions, the Nigerian activists Yellow Page shall be a constantly updated reference source from which to speedily rally rescue intervention, legal and general support in real time to activists, journalists and sundry citizens who are in danger in any part of the country. In 2027, Nigeria is going to need this directory more than the citizens of any country in the world. 

To be forewarned, is to be forearmed.

By Prince Tony Akeni, Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim), October 4, 2025

How Federal High Court Interprets Supreme Court's Judgment on LP Leadership Crises: Declares Abure's Tenure Expired, Affirms INEC's Rejection of Abure's NEC!

 Comrade Tony Akeni, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party

Senator Nenadi 

The Federal High Court in Abuja today put paid to the protracted confusion trailing the Supreme Court judgment delivered April 4 this year on the tenure of the Julius Abure led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party. 

The judgment has consequently also put to rest the ensuing furore of the judgment's true interpretation by contending parties.

Delivering its verdict today in the federal capital, the court unequivocally also upheld INEC's rejection of the Julius Abure leadership of the party contained in the electoral commission's affidavit on oath which asserted that Abure's tenure as national chairman of the Labour Party terminated on June 8, 2024, and that the purported Nnewi convention which Abure and his defunct council hitherto clung to was inconsistent with INEC's rules and regulations governing political party convention, the country's Electoral Act, illegal and therefore null and void. 

The development which gives the Nnenadi Usman council the clear and puts her squarely in the reins of the Labour Party leadership was made known today in Abuja by Sen. Usman Nenadi herself in an official statement on the judgment and spirited commendation of the judiciary on the party's leadership disputes and INEC. 

Below is the full statement.

I WELCOME THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 AND INEC’S SWORN CONFIRMATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF MR. JULIUS ABURE’S TENURE AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY

I received with profound relief and deep satisfaction the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, which today dismissed in its entirety the case instituted by Mr. Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This decision stands as yet another unambiguous and authoritative affirmation of the rule of law and the judiciary’s steadfast consistency in upholding the binding pronouncements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

This latest judgment aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Mr. Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party. In its wisdom - and in strict adherence to the Supreme Court’s final pronouncement - the Federal High Court in Abuja rightly struck out the originating suit for want of jurisdiction. That decision of the apex court remains binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I must also commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for the clarity, courage, and institutional integrity reflected in its Counter Affidavit during the pendency of the case. In that sworn testimony before the court, INEC categorically confirmed that the tenure of Mr. Abure, along with that of the entire National Executive Committee, expired in June 2024. The Commission further affirmed that it neither monitored nor recognised the purported National Convention held in Nnewi on 27 March 2024, having found it to be in flagrant breach of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s own Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and the Labour Party Constitution.

This unequivocal position, rendered under oath by the nation’s electoral umpire before a competent court of law, removes all lingering doubts and reinforces the imperative for every member, officer, and stakeholder of our great party to submit, at all times, to the supremacy of our Constitution and the dictates of the rule of law.

With this judgment - and INEC’s clear, unambiguous stance - it is time for all members of the Labour Party to put this needless distraction behind us and to recommit ourselves to the urgent task of rebuilding and repositioning our party into the credible, disciplined, and people-centred political movement that Nigerians deserve.

Under my leadership as Interim National Chairman, I remain unwavering in my commitment to ensuring strict compliance with our party’s Constitution, entrenching transparent internal democratic processes, and restoring unity, discipline, and shared purpose as we prepare for the political contests ahead.

_SIGNED:_

*Senator Nenadi Usman, PhD*

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party

15th August, 2025

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Supreme Court Judgment Audio Confirms Julius Abure’s Sack as Labour Party Chairman

As Supreme Court Nullifies Judgments of The (FCT High Court & Court of Appeal) Recognising Abure As LP National Chairman on 4th April 2025*

(a): - As *Senator Esther Nenadi Usman* and *Senator Darlington Nwokocha* Appointed by LP NEC as National Chairman and National Secretary. 

( b): - As Julius Abure's 2019 NWC tenure expired 8th June 2024 by effluxion of time after 5 years that included one (1) years extension secured illegally under a Subsisting FCT High Court Restraining Order of 4th April 2023 that Restrained Julius Abure, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, Ojukwu Clement from parading themselves as National officials of Labour Party over Perjury, Forgery and Criminal Conspiracy 

(c): - As INEC Affidavit on oath in SUIT NO.: CV/2936/ 2024 paragraph 5 (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), and section 82 (1), (3), & (5) of the Electoral Act 2022 declared the Julius Abure's national convention of 27th March 2024 in Nnewi Anambra State illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void for failing to comply with the consent judgment terms of settlement midwifed by INEC on 26th April 2022 and executed between the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC the Labour Party, LP on 27th June 2022.

(d): - As Senator Esther Nenadi Usman led National Caretaker Committee, NCC takes over the Labour Party LP National Secretariat on Monday 7th April 2025.

(d): - As Labour Party LP awaits the Honourable Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice HAGF-MJ to immediately commence the criminal prosecution of Julius Abure, Umar Farouk Ibrahim and others in court on the prosecution order by the Inspector General of Police, IGP signed 25th October 2023

Labour Party LP !

Forward Ever !!

Backward Never !!!

*Comrade Engr. Dr. Eragbe Anslem Aphimia* 

(C.REG, COA)

Immediate Past National Youth Leader of Labour Party LP in Nigeria 

From 10/06/2019 - 08/06/2024

LP SEEKS REVIVAL THROUGH STAKEHOLDERS’ COLLABORATION, TO CONDUCT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE CONGRESS

"COMMUNIQUE' AT THE END OF A STAKEHOLDERS MEETING OF THE LABOUR PARTY LP HELD ON MONDAY, 8TH APRIL 2024 AT THE AGNL EVENTS CENTRE, GUDU DISTRICT, ABUJA FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, FCT.

PREAMBLE 

Owing to the current vacuum in the leadership of the Labour Party LP, the NLC Political Commission consequent on its status in the Constitution of the Labour Party LP as a registered trustee of the Labour Party LP, a status that was further buttressed by a Federal High Court Consent Judgement delivered on March 20, 2018 by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, convened this stakeholders meeting to address the leadership void in the Labour Party LP and to discuss the repositioning of Labour Party LP to deliver it's mandate as the political vehicle for the emancipation of Nigerian workers and people.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS' MEETING 

1- The STAKEHOLDERS MEETING noted the vacuum in the leadership of the Labour Party LP following the expiration of the supposed tenure of the immediate past National Working Committee, NWC of the Labour Party LP elected on 10th June 2019 in Akwanga Nasarawa State National Convention.

2- The STAKEHOLDERS MEETING following the unanimous adoption of a motion moved to accept the recommendation made in the address by the NLC Political Commission Chairman resolved that in order to reposition the Labour Party LP from a mere platform for contesting elections to a viable political vehicle for the emancipation of Nigerian workers and people, the following steps must be taken immediately:

i- Constitution of a Transition Committee under the leadership of the NLC Political Commission and working with all Stakeholders with a mandate to set up structures at National, States, Local Government Areas and Ward level for the conduct of an All-Inclusive- and expansive national convention of the Labour Party LP.

ii- The STAKEHOLDERS MEETING passed A VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE on the purported Labour Party LP National Convention held in Nnewi, Anambra State on 27th March 2024 and regarded it as INCONSEQUENTIAL the leadership that claimed to have emerged the illegal Nnewi Convention.

iii- That the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and all the relevant security organizations in Nigeria are hereby notified and should be officially written immediately to recognize the TRANSITION COMMITTEE AS THE INTERIM LEADERSHIP of the Labour Party LP pending the conduct of an All - Inclusive and Expansive National Convention of the Labour Party LP.

iv- That the Transition Committee once constituted should FULLY TAKE OVER THE SECRETARIAT of the Labour Party LP all over Nigeria.

v- That the Transition Committee shall immediately set up an assets recovery process of all the properties of the Labour Party LP. 

The Transition Committee shall also ensure that ALL THE CASES OF FRAUD, IMPERSONATION AND FORGERY OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS PENDING AGAINST A FEW DISCREDITED FORMER OFFICERS of the Labour Party LP are forensically audited and CULPRITS ARE DILIGENTLY PROSECUTED as demanded by the leader of the Labour Party LP - Mr. Peter Obi.

It is unfortunate that the actions of these few dishonourable characters have splashed mud on the white satin of the Labour Party LP.

vi- That the Transition Committee shall within three (3) months of its constitution ensure the conduct of an All - Inclusive And Expansive National Convention of the Labour Party LP starting from WARD CONGRESSES to LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONGRESSES, to STATE CONGRESSES & Culminating in an All-inclusive and Expansive National Convention in Abuja.

vii- Pursuant to the forgoing, the Transition Committee is mandated by the Stakeholders meeting to begin the process of REVALIDATION OF CURRENT MEMBERS of the Labour Party LP and the REGISTRATION of NEW MEMBERS through the issuance of new membership cards and receipt of membership dues for the purposes of the conduct of an All inclusive and expansive national convention of the Labour Party LP.

It is expected that this National Mobilization drive will yield in the first instance a total membership strength of Ten (10) million Labour Party LP card carrying members drawn from across all workplaces,marketplaces, professional groups, ethnic and religious organizations that Nigerian workers and people belongs to.

viii- The STAKEHOLDERS MEETING recognized, affirmed and commended the support of critical stakeholders in the Labour Party LP for their continued support and faith in the Labour Party LP.

We promise that your steadfast solidarity will surely count !

ix- Finally, we reiterate that the Labour Party LP is a party for all Nigerians regardless of ethnic, religious, regional, social and economic orientation or status.

Signed:

1: Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku 

For: Chairman 

NLC Political Commission 

2: Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, Mni

Former President 

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC 

3: Comrade S.O.Z Ejiofor 

Chairman 

Board of Trustees, BoT 

Labour Party LP 

4: Engr. Gambo Daniel Balarabe

National Coordinator, CSF

5: Dr. Moses Paul (Mo)

Coordinator,

Obedient Movement 

6: Chief Yohana Yilpwan Margif

Labour Party LP Plateau State Governorship Candidate 2023

7: Dr. Kingsley Oghogho Okundaye

Coordinator, LPPMC

8: Hon. Jonathan Awake

Kaduna State Labour Party LP Governorship Candidate 2023

9: Barr. Ihekwoaba Paul

For: Disabled Persons, PWD in Labour Party LP"

Labour Party LP 

Forward Ever !

Backward Never !