The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has failed to recognise Julius Abure as the National Chairman of Labour Party, even as the electoral body is still retaining his name on the list of political party chairmen on its website.
This development is contained in a counter-affidavit filed in the Federal High Court Abuja, and had come in response to Labour Party’s suit, disputing its exclusion from INEC’s refresher training for uploading party agents, ahead of the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections.
In the document released, INEC had insisted that Abure’s tenure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party terminated in June 2024.
The Labour Party has been embroiled in a fresh leadership tussle since June 2024, when the party’s congress in Anambra state extended the Julius Abure’s led executive tenure.
The outcome of that congress has been interrogated by many within the party, including by the former deputy chairman, Callistus Okafor, the governor of Abia State Alex Otti, and the 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi who just recently, held a national Congress to try to settle the impasse.
