The Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) has knocked the Interim National Chairperson of the party, Nenadi Usman over her claims that the committee she chairs was responsible for saving the LP from being deregistered by the nation’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, countered the claim in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The statement described as false, the claim by Usman, who is a card-carrying member of the PDP, where she said 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.
The statement also dismissed the claim as “ludicrous, unattainable, unsubstantiated, and a pack of lies.”
It reads, “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.”
Recall that last week, Senator Usman had said that it was the timely intervention of stakeholders who appointed a 29-member committee which she is the head, that saved the party from the hammer of INEC given the crisis rocking its leadership.
