LP Crisis: Abure Dismisses Nenadi Usman’s C’ttee over INEC’s Deregistration Claim

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP), has faulted claims by the Interim National Chairperson of the party, Nenadi Usman, that the 29-man committee saved the party from being deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Faulting the claim, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, said in a statement, that in the first place, Usman was not a card-carrying member of the party.

According to Ifoh, “Usman, ‘a card-carrying member of the PDP’ wherein she claimed that the quick intervention of some leaders of the party at the September 4, 2024 Stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, saved the party from being deregistered by INEC, is false.”

He said the Labour Party leadership wished to refute that statement as ludicrous, unattainable, unsubstantiated, and a pack of lies.

“We wish to state emphatically that the Labour Party is in good shape at the moment, having fully abided by the laws of the land, and therefore cannot be deregistered by INEC.

“These leaders have also mischievously leveraged on INEC’s misinformed and erroneous disposition that the tenure of the party’s current executives has expired.

“It is paradoxical that some of these leaders who were victims of INEC’s mismanagement of the 2023 general election are now the ones quoting INEC, in order to victimise the leadership of the Labour Party.

“As we have maintained earlier, the September 4 Stakeholders’ meeting held in Umuahia is unconstitutional and illegal as the party’s constitution clearly states all the organs of the party, of which Stakeholder is not one of them.

“The stakeholder group which produced Senator Usman as its leader has no foundation whatsoever, and therefore, its existence is delusional and can never be recognised by INEC or any law of the land.

“Senator Nenadi’s claim that the Stakeholders saved the party from being deregistered by the INEC is equally preposterous.”