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By John Alechenu, Abuja
The Labour Party Candidates Forum (LPCF) has declared that the enactment of Senator Nenadi Usman arsenic Interim National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) is not successful dispute.
The forum stated that the Supreme Court judgement of April 4, 2025, which ruled that Barr. Julius Abure’s tenure arsenic National Chairman had expired, paved the mode for the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) to capable the vacant position.
Chairman of the Forum and the Labour Party’s 2023 Kogi State governorship candidate, Barr. Okeme Adejoh, made this known during a property briefing successful Abuja connected Monday.
Adejoh commended the Supreme Court for what helium described arsenic a landmark judgement that ended months of enactment tussle caused by Abure’s refusal to vacate office.
“We commend INEC for its respect for the regularisation of instrumentality and for protecting the integrity of interior enactment democracy,” Adejoh said.
“We telephone connected INEC to upload the names of Sen. Nenadi Usman arsenic Interim National Chairman and Sen. Darlington Nwokocha arsenic Interim National Secretary of the Labour Party, arsenic duly appointed by the NEC to steer enactment activities up of the upcoming ward, section government, and authorities congresses, arsenic good arsenic the nationalist convention.”
The LPCF congratulated Senators Usman and Nwokocha connected their Supreme Court triumph and praised their efforts successful repositioning the enactment for occurrence up of the 2027 wide elections.
The forum, however, cautioned Julius Abure to halt distracting the enactment and to obey some the Supreme Court and Federal High Court judgments that removed him from office.
“The tenure of the erstwhile president and his squad has expired. New leaders person been appointed to pb the enactment forward,” Adejoh added. “INEC is simply a regulatory umpire meant to service governmental parties, not the different mode around.”
He appealed to each aggrieved members of the enactment to extremity hostilities and cooperate with the caller enactment successful rebuilding the party.
Also speaking, the 2023 Ebonyi State governorship campaigner and Secretary of the Forum, Comrade Oko Eze, urged Abure and his supporters to respect judicial pronouncements.
“Judgments of Nigerian courts are meant to beryllium obeyed. I’m not amazed that Julius Abure has refused to comply with the Supreme Court judgement that removed him,” Eze said.
“In my case, I won judgments against Abure astatine the Federal High Court, the Court of Appeal, and yet astatine the Supreme Court, yet helium refused to comply. When tribunal judgments are ignored, what follows is autocracy and tyranny — Nigeria cannot spend that.”
Eze reiterated that Abure’s tenure had agelong expired, adding that his archetypal emergence arsenic president successful 2019 was based connected the goodwill of the erstwhile chairman.
“From 2019 to 2025, his tenure has agelong expired. Both the Supreme Court and the Federal High Court person affirmed this. We privation him good successful his aboriginal endeavors, but arsenic acold arsenic the Labour Party is concerned, his clip is over,” helium stated.
The station LP Crisis: Senator Nenadi Usman’s enactment not successful quality — Candidates’ Forum appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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