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Crisis hits Obi’s LP faction as BoT sacks NWC

A fresh leadership crisis has erupted in the Labour Party, deepening the rift within the camp aligned with former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, following the sack of the Senator Nenadi Usman–led interim National Working Committee by the party’s Board of Trustees and a quorum of the statutory National Executive Council.

The dissolution of the iNWC was disclosed in a leaked statement jointly signed by the party’s BoT Chairman, S.O. Ejiofor, and Secretary, Salisu Mohammed, respectively, dated December 2, 2025.

Ejiofor insisted that the decision was taken after months of “gross incompetence,” failure to organise congresses, and alleged acts capable of plunging the party into “irreparable oblivion” ahead of the 2027 general elections.

As part of the shake-up, the party leadership reappointed Prince Tony Akeni as acting National Publicity Secretary and Nwauwa Nnawuihie as acting National Secretary, pending the constitution of a fresh interim National Working Committee in line with the party’s constitution.

“The Board of Trustees and statutory National Executive Council quorum of the Labour Party of Nigeria stand by the dissolution of the Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha-led interim National Working Committee of the party as officially communicated to the dissolved committee in the party’s letter of December 3, 2025,” he said.

The statement traced the crisis to the September 4, 2024 appointment of the Nenadi committee in Umuahia, Abia State, with a 90-day mandate to conduct nationwide state congresses and a national convention in line with a 2018 consent judgment and an INEC-brokered settlement.

According to the party, the committee not only failed to meet the deadline but also failed to deliver after an additional 90-day extension granted on July 18, 2025, which expired on October 17, 2025 “without even a single ward congress achieved throughout the country.”

The leadership further accused the dissolved iNWC of presiding over a period in which the Labour Party was excluded by INEC from local government elections, by-elections and upcoming polls, leading to mass defections and organisational paralysis.

“During the same period under the sleepwalking leadership of the Usman-led committee, LP was brazenly excluded by INEC from participating in all local council elections, state and National Assembly by-elections throughout Nigeria during the outgoing year 2025,” the statement added.

However, the factional chairman swiftly rejected the dissolution, setting the stage for a renewed legal and political battle.

Reacting, Usman’s media aide, Ken Asogwa, dismissed the BoT action as unconstitutional and legally untenable.

“Dissolved by who? The BoT or the NLC? With all your experience covering political parties, have you seen where BoT dissolved a constituted National Working Committee of a political party before?” Asogwa asked.

He insisted that only the NEC and a National Convention have the powers to dissolve a National Working Committee.

“The only two organs of a political party, including the Labour Party, that have the capacity to dissolve a National Working Committee are the NEC and the National Convention,”he argued.

Asogwa also questioned the legitimacy of the letters announcing and retracting the dissolution, saying, “That is assuming without conceding that it’s coming from the BoT because there are two contradictory letters here.”

On claims that the crisis could be resolved internally, he said, “There’s nothing to resolve here. The people we have problems with are Julius Abure and his camp and the Supreme Court has finally resolved that matter in our favour.”

He maintained that Nenadi remains the authentic national chairman of the party.

“So, Nenadi remains the National Chairman of the Labour Party by reason of the NEC appointment and the Supreme Court judgment,” he said.

Similarly, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, dismissed the existence of factions and ridiculed the authority of the BoT behind the dissolution.

“My initial response is that you can’t place something on nothing. But in truth, we don’t have any faction,” Ifoh said, adding that the so-called BoT “has not been constituted” by the party.

“What you see playing out is the BoT that belongs to the Nigeria Labour Congress. The NLC has become a government organisation that now appoints a BoT for a political party,” he said.

When asked to respond to allegations that Abure loyalists had infiltrated and fuelled the crisis, Ifoh fired back:“How do we infiltrate them? Do we have the money that they have? The Labour Party is intact. We have only one leader.”

He added: “These guys (Nenadi and members of the BoT) are just distractions. So, we really do not have their time. They are amusing themselves and bastardising what democracy stands for.”

The factional spokesman described the latest development as vindication of their long-held position that the Nenadi-led arrangement was illegal and unsustainable, mocking the unfolding crisis as proof that the party’s troubles were self-inflicted.

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Obi should join ATIKU ADC

Cajal:
Obi should join ATIKU ADC

Obi should join Wike PDP

Politic no be by online noise and attending owambe

It's high time Obi joins Atiku in ADC.
The clock is ticking.
Agree to deputies Atiku, and tinubu will be gone by 12noon on election day

Party scatter,people gather,as he enter Omo the party scatter….who sang the song for Obi self

ContentedMan:
It's high time Obi joins Atiku in ADC.
The clock is ticking.
Agree to deputies Atiku, and tinubu will be gone by 12noon on election day

but by the time they will count the real votes you will be shouting rigging,when one senseless person is telling you that by 12 that accreditation may not have ended,election would have been won by one person.reality is unfair to most of you sha

OneCandleAway:
Obi seems to be good at governance not party politics. He needs a party with a strong structure being controlled properly. Problem is whoever is controlling the party will want to dictate to him because they will feel they were instrumental to his success if he wins.

he can form and register party nah,atleast he has organic followers that don’t need manure to grow and don’t need votes to win election.let him and his followers form political party and stop scattering every available political structure

Saturnalia:
Obi should join Wike PDP

Cajal:
Obi should join ATIKU ADC

Obi should go back to APGA.

LP and his hoarde of Obi's hijackers just can't get it right

Obi seems to be good at governance not party politics. He needs a party with a strong structure being controlled properly. Problem is whoever is controlling the party will want to dictate to him because they will feel they were instrumental to his success if he wins.

All these rifts in the party is as a result of the failure of Peter Obi to have a strong grip of the party before and after the Presidential election. He is the number one just like the president or governor of a state in a party and failure to place trusted and loyal people in positions always result to this kind of situation.

Peter Obi must learn the art of Nigerian and African politics by extention. Be brutish and firm. Use your authority and position to force party members to align to the rules and regulations. Humans are naturally stubborn and don't like to be controlled, it is in our DNA, so only brute force can coarse us to obey and fall in line.

However, we await his announcement on January 1st 2026 when he'll make a decision and chart a new course because he is dumping the LP for another, could be PDP, ADC, APC or a little or unknown party.

Is Peter Obi still in Labouring Party?

Someone who is not in charge of his political party, can't control his supporters because he doesn't have the leadership skill but thinking he can govern Nigeria.

Nigerians would rather vote for Turji Bello before considering Peter Obi as the Nigeria president

They left and decimated PDP when they couldn’t get what they wanted, they hijacked LP and scattered it’s existing structure, causing chaos and factions, claiming leadership while at the same time flirting with ADC and leaving those ones in limbo. But somehow it is Tinubu destabilizing parties and creating a one party state.

Can’t manage a home, can’t manage a state, can’t manage a party but wants to manage a country.

deeva2:
Politic no be by online noise and attending owambe

But the Tinubu that knows how to play politics and hijack power by all means, what has he done to benefit an average Nigerian?

What is the use of the power that you gain, if all you do and plan is to inflict more pains on your people and siphon funds?

casualobserver:
They left and decimated PDP when they couldn’t get what they wanted, they hijacked LP and scattered it’s existing structure, causing chaos and factions, claiming leadership while at the same time flirting with ADC and leaving those ones in limbo. But somehow it is Tinubu destabilizing parties and creating a one party state.

Na magic hands I dey hear say people dey get but na acid hands Peter Obi get. Whatever he touches must melt sha ni

ContentedMan:
It's high time Obi joins Atiku in ADC.
The clock is ticking.
Agree to deputies Atiku, and tinubu will be gone by 12noon on election day

Going to ADC as what?

Atiku's running mate?

Atiku can't pick him after the whole begging is Islamic culture and Obi's role in funding and lobbying for US invasion on northern Nigeria citing christian genocide.

Obi and his obidient are hated across the north these 2 reasons.

The only reason ADC is luring him is so that he won't be on the ballot and divide votes .

Election is in a few months time and Obi is till floating between parties. No solid footing and some people will vote him to rule a country as complex as Nigeria. Okay oh

OneCandleAway:
Obi seems to be good at governance not party politics. He needs a party with a strong structure being controlled properly. Problem is whoever is controlling the party will want to dictate to him because they will feel they were instrumental to his success if he wins.

Obi should join the civil service and go for in-service training.

Leadership is more than being a greater TRADER.

Obi is good as a trader. He should stay on that lane.

casualobserver:
They left and decimated PDP when they couldn’t get what they wanted, they hijacked LP and scattered it’s existing structure, causing chaos and factions, claiming leadership while at the same time flirting with ADC and leaving those ones in limbo. But somehow it is Tinubu destabilizing parties and creating a one party state.

your oga have finally welcomed you.

OneCandleAway:
Obi seems to be good at governance not party politics. He needs a party with a strong structure being controlled properly. Problem is whoever is controlling the party will want to dictate to him because they will feel they were instrumental to his success if he wins.

Good at governance

What did he do with this skill in Anambra?

A party with multifaceted problem

DomPerignon:
Going to ADC as what?

Atiku's running mate?

Atiku can't pick him after the whole begging is Islamic culture and Obi's role in funding and lobbying for US invasion on northern Nigeria citing christian genocide.

Obi and his obidient are hated across the north these 2 reasons.

The only reason ADC is luring him is so that he won't be on the ballot and divide votes .

you know too much nonsense.correct

ogolemati:
your oga have finally welcomed you.

Dele Momodu brain dey too soft because he loves too much eba!

See dem these ones...

I suspect there are APC undercover members causing problems just like what's going on with the PDP.

They should kukuma make the country a 2 party or 1 party matter, make we know say everything dey their hands. Then I wonder who Dem go begin blame for their failures.

They will still find a way to blame Tinubu for all the mess they created in their party

I still wonder why it's difficult to deputize Atiku for now.

It's surer way to the Villa. With one leg in, your region might be on the right path to have their turn.

Former governors have been deputies before, I don't see anything wrong with it.

My only concern is that with Atiku, the rest of the regions are far behind in leadership.

The opportunist north uses chances created by the disunity of the south.

For next coming election peter obi will not see third position 👌👌👌

Indeed

The Enemy within. It is a misnomer for the President or Governor to be the number one party man just because he won an election. The government can not last more than 8 years max but the party that produced him will be there forever. We are used to jagabandits kind of politics where we want one person to be the almighty, so there is no institutional mechanism to check his excesses. Trump is not more stronger than his Republican party. Zuma was taken out by his ANC as president. Nigerians are used to this king of politics syndrome, that's why the minsormer is normal to you.

Let the parties have institutions that are stronger than their flag bearers and office bearers.

helinues:
Na magic hands I dey hear say people dey get but na acid hands Peter Obi get. Whatever he touches must melt sha ni

casualobserver:
They left and decimated PDP when they couldn’t get what they wanted, they hijacked LP and scattered it’s existing structure, causing chaos and factions, claiming leadership while at the same time flirting with ADC and leaving those ones in limbo. But somehow it is Tinubu destabilizing parties and creating a one party state.

Can’t manage a home, can’t manage a state, can’t manage a party but wants to manage a country.

Who knew anything about LP before Peter Obi brought it to limelight, if not just once it won a governorship position with few ward councillors. Was that party ever known, say the truth and shame the devil.

All these 30k laptop online druggie supporters who know nothing about politics don't cease to amaze someone.

wellmax:
Good at governance

What did he do with this skill in Anambra?

Do you think with all the funds generated in Lagos, they are delivering good governance?

Obi doesn't have a party.

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IDERAWOLE:
Dele Momodu brain dey too soft because he loves too much eba!

the tout una employed have removed your welcome address well this is your case