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ABUJA: The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has re-enlisted the name of Julius Abure on its website as the National Chairman of Labour Party, Vanguard checks have revealed.

It also re-enlisted Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim as National Secretary of the party.

According to the commission, the reenlistment was based on an order of court.

The commission equally has Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. It did not however indicate whether the decision was based on a court order.

The Supreme Court had last month set aside earlier decisions of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal which recognized Mr Abure as Labour Party’s National Chairman.

Since then, Abure had continued to lay claim to the seat, relying on the apex court’s decision that the issue of his chairmanship remained an internal affair of the Labour Party and was therefore not justiceable.

However, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi had insisted on the validity of a Caretaker Committee, chaired by Senator Nenadi Usman, saying the ruling effectively sacked Abure.

Governor Otti had on April 9 formally presented to INEC, a Certified True Copy of the Supreme Court judgment concerning the party’s leadership.

According to him, the meeting was aimed at fostering clarity, mutual understanding, and institutional alignment regarding the LP’s current.

An INEC source said Abure’s name was re-enlisted after studying the Certified True Copy CTC of the judgment.

According to him, the Supreme Court judgment did not deal with the “Res” or substance of the matter as it only ruled on the lack of jurisdiction by the lower courts, a development which implied that the “status quo ante bellum” remained.

The Supreme Court had also in March overturned the decisions of the Court of Appeal and the Federal High Court which sacked Senator Anyanwu as the National Secretary of PDP.

Before then, there had been a protracted leadership tussle between Mr Anyanwu and Mr Sunday Ude-Okoye, who was reportedly chosen by some governors of the party.

Like in the case of the LP, the apex court had ruled that the lower courts had no jurisdiction to have entertained the matter ab initio, which it said remained an internal affair of the PDP.

LegendHero:
Haaaaa wahala.

E don finish for Labor party with this.

Slytiger:
Have you seen the video of Akpabio slamming Peter Obi and advising him to fix the issues of his small Labour party first before aspiring to be President where he would be required to fix bigger issues. Lol.

Validated:
INEC is corn-fused

zero8zero:
fergie0.01 was arguing. Congrats to our Chairman, Mr Julius Abure.

fergie001:
I can tell you clearly that INEC is wrong and fostering the crisis.
PDP's clear because Wike and Damagum have overpowered that Party but you see for LP, INEC is simply a Party to the crisis.

I am waiting, I know INEC will deny it.

According to him, the Supreme Court judgment did not deal with the “Res” or substance of the matter as it only ruled on the lack of jurisdiction by the lower courts, a development which implied that the “status quo ante bellum” remained.

Slytiger:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/scourt-judgement-inec-reinstates-lps-abure-pdps-anyanwu-names-on-website/

LegendHero:
Haaaaa wahala.

E don finish for Labor party with this.

Abure already suspended Otti nao, he can just prop up someone from the LG to make it official.

Obi can’t manage an ordinary 2by2 party and he wan manage Nigeria.

Validated:
INEC is corn-fused

fergie001:
I can tell you clearly that INEC is wrong and fostering the crisis.
PDP's clear because Wike and Damagum have overpowered that Party but you see for LP, INEC is simply a Party to the crisis.

I am waiting, I know INEC will deny it.

zero8zero:
Do you have a copy of the CTC?

ALTERNATEID:
After reading the judgement of the SC, this is the only sensible position to take. Abure was the last known validly elected chairman of the party. If the court says everyone should go back to the party mechanism for solution, then the last known validly elected PARTY LEADERS should lead the process and not an unknown character who was selected by a gang of characters that have never held or been elected into party positions before.

Nenadi Usman and her committee were not a product of any known party process. Those that crowned her have no legal basis to appoint her to that position. The least INEC can do is to recognize Abure and give him the chance to lead the process of resolving the party crisis.

Chimookigwe:
I warned Obidients but they insulted me.

Abure go show una pepper.

fergie001:
For the umpteenth time, I have said this is not true.
Abure's tenure has ended, INEC acknowledged that.
The process that brought him back for another term, no Ward or Zonal Congresses, INEC also publicly noted that.

Now, it's simple like I have said many times, the NEC of the Party can be called at any time with or without the NWC's consent. NEC meetings that held during PDP were called for by Jonathan as leader of the Party. Two-thirds majority members of NEC can force NEC. No Chairman calls for NEC unless he is doubly sire of been safe.

During the Giadom/Oshiomhole brouhaha, who pushed for NEC, Buhari.
Like I have said, NLC is one of the cardinal pillars of the LP.