The battle for control of the Labour Party between the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee and the Nenadi Usman Caretaker Committee took a new twist on Thursday, after the former insisted there is no vacuum in the party leadership.
Abure also warned Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, to obey the Supreme Court judgment.
He spoke through the LP National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, at a media briefing in Abuja.
Abure said, “The position of the Labour Party after critically reviewing the Supreme Court judgment delivered on the 4th of April 2025 stated as follows: The Supreme Court, contrary to speculations, actually reaffirmed the National Convention of the party held on the 27th of March 2024 at Nnewi.
“The reason for the non-justiciability of internal disputes of a political party is simple, and in the eyes of the law, a political party is a corporate entity with its constitution, rules, regulations, and guidelines which are binding on members who had joined freely have consented to be so bound (See Abegunde Vs. Ondo State House of Assembly & Ors. (2015) LPELR-24588 (SC).
“Consequently, we admonished Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State, and Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of our party in the 2023 general election, who are the protagonists of the current division in the party, to hear the Supreme Court loud and clear.”
Continuing, Abure insisted that before the contentious national convention, the Labour Party fulfilled all legal requirements in line with the LP Constitution, Electoral Act, and the 1999 Constitution.