Ex-Labour Party Candidates Urge INEC To Obey Court Verdict

Former Labour Party candidates, nether the aegis of Labour Party Candidates Forum (LPCF), person called connected the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to comply with judicial rulings connected the enactment of the party.

At a property league successful Abuja, the forum’s president and 2023 Kogi State governorship candidate, Barr. Okeme Adejoh, urged INEC to respect the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Federal High Court, which, according to him, declared that Mr Julius Abure’s tenure arsenic nationalist president had expired.

Adejoh said the Supreme Court judgement of April 4, 2025 and the Federal High Court verdict of August 15, 2025, held that Abure’s tenure had lapsed.

He, however, expressed interest that INEC and Abure “continue to enactment successful contempt of the courts.”

He noted that tribunal judgments “are meant to beryllium obeyed by each parties involved,” adding that disobedience to specified rulings undermines the nation’s justness system.

The forum besides expressed disapproval of Abure’s information successful INEC’s quarterly gathering with governmental parties, saying it contradicts existing tribunal decisions.

Adejoh said the forum would proceed to advocator for compliance done lawful and peaceful means.

He urged INEC to update its records to bespeak the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) decision, recognising Senator Nenadi Usman arsenic interim nationalist president and Senator Darlington Nwokocha arsenic nationalist secretary.

In his remarks, the 2023 Ebonyi State governorship campaigner and decretary of the LPCF, Comrade Splendour Oko Eze, said the Supreme Court’s determination connected Abure’s tenure remains last and binding, calling for afloat compliance.

He appealed to the recently confirmed INEC chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, noting that arsenic a lawyer, helium should guarantee adherence to the court’s ruling already communicated to the commission.

“Nigeria tin lone advancement erstwhile the laws of the onshore are obeyed,” Eze added.

Also speaking, the contiguous past nationalist Youth Leader of the Labour Party, Comrade Eragbe Anslem, said the Supreme Court judgement of April 4, 2025, dismissed earlier little tribunal rulings that recognised Abure arsenic chairman.

He maintained that the apex court’s ruling is last and should beryllium respected.

The forum reaffirmed its committedness to the regularisation of instrumentality and interior democracy, pledging to proceed promoting the integrity of the enactment and adherence to judicial pronouncements.