New Twist In Labour Party Crisis As INEC Snubs Abure

The travails of the embattled national chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure have been further aggravated by the stance of the election management body, INEC to freeze him pending the resolution of the crisis in the party.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has put the embattled national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure in suspense charging him to resolve issues around his leadership of the opposition party before further approaching the commission.

A report in Daily Trust averred that INEC officials were not disposed to comment on the matter but the resolve of the commission was underpinned by the fact that the commission has on two consecutive occasions excluded Abure and his enablers from stakeholders’ sessions with party chairmen including the latest on Thursday.

The emergency meeting called by INEC with the national chairmen and national secretaries of all the nation’s registered political parties, was part of measures to ensure the success of the forthcoming off-cycle elections in Edo and Ondo states slated for September 21 and November 11 respectively.

It was learnt that Abure was not invited to the meeting and that he was asked to stay away pending the resolution of the leadership crisis in the party.

The scenario was not different from what happened penultimate Wednesday on August 14 during the third regular quarterly consultative meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), where Abure was not permitted to attend the meeting.

The development was coming on the heels of the sole governor of the party and Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti; alongside the party’s presidential candidate in last year’s elections, Mr Peter Obi who have scheduled a special meeting next Wednesday in Umuahia, as part of measures to resolve the protracted crisis in the party.

INEC had distanced itself from the LP Convention held on 27th March 2024 in Nnewi, Anambra State, where Abure was reelected as the National Chairman of the party.

INEC in a letter signed by the then Ag Secretary to the commission, Haliru Aminu, dated July 18, in response to a letter of application for the certified copy of the document of the LP convention said it did not monitor the LP convention of 27th March 2024 and cannot therefore report on the convention.

“Regrettably the Commission did not monitor the Labour Party Convention of 27th March 2024 and cannot therefore report on the convention,” the INEC letter reads in parts.

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