LP crisis: Abure knocks Usman over INEC near deregistration claim

By Jude Opara

The Julius Abure-led Labour Party, LP, has berated claims by the Stakeholders appointed Interim National Chairperson of the party, Nenadi Usman that her committee saved the LP from being deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ifoh said that the statement issued by 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.
According to him, the Labour Party leadership wishes 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, to victimize 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.
Senator Usman had in a statement last week said that for the timely intervention of stakeholders who came together to appoint a 29-member committee that she heads, INEC would have wielded the big stick against the party over its leadership crisis.