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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reiterated that Julius Abure’s tenure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) expired in June 2024.

This was made known in a counter-affidavit filed in response to LP’s suit challenging its exclusion from INEC’s refresher training for ing party agents ahead of the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections.

INEC declared LP’s leadership including Abure invalid and did not recognise the party’s March 2024 National Convention, which claimed to re-elect Abure as chairman.

According to the electoral umpire, the convention violated the Constitution and Electoral Act, adding that it only engages with parties that have valid and subsisting leadership.

In a written address in of the counter-affidavit, INEC’s legal team, led by TankoInuwa (SAN), argued that LP’s suit was seeking declaratory reliefs, which could not be granted as a matter of course or based on mere issions.

The team contended that LP must succeed on the strength of its case, even in the face of issions. The commission’s lawyers further submitted that having failed to comply with the extant legal frameworks in conducting its national convention, “LP does not have a valid leadership that INEC can engage.”

They urged the court to dismiss the suit, insisting that LP was not entitled to the reliefs sought. INEC claimed it did not monitor, participate in or recognise the purported National Convention of LP on March 27, 2024, in Anambra State, where Abure claimed to have been re-elected. It argued that the convention was conducted in breach of the Constitution, Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and LP’s Constitution 2019.

As of August 16, 2024, when the refresher training notice was issued, the commission asserted that LP had no valid national chairman or secretary, as their tenure had elapsed in June.

https://guardian.ng/politics/abures-tenure-as-lp-boss-expired-in-june-2024-inec-insists/

The drama continues. The court will soon decide if it's a lost cause or not.

May God bless Nigeria for ever!

Anither563:
The drama continues. The court will soon decide if it's a lost cause or not.

May God bless Nigeria for ever!

I'm not really a fan of LP what ever the internal problem is ..Well that's for them to solve. I call them lazy people

Scam party from the onset

Odua4life:
I'm not really a fan of LP what ever the internal problem is ..Well that's for them to solve. I call them lazy people

You created a thread and still Dey comment on the thread .. bitter soul

Focus on your party

This useless Tinubu mole just dey disappoint

I really wonder what Abure stands to gain from all this wahala

Toh

LP na wahala party oo

Better to clarify

Bentacur007:

You created a thread and still Dey comment on the thread .. bitter soul

Focus on your party

wahala party

Labour Party and their court cases

Your comment iclear and helpful

Can't these people settle their matter amicably? Still E no go better for chinedu Rhodes Vivors and all the people following him

Abure's LP is not recognized by INEC. The party is not even stable.

I dont know what Abure is looking for.
His days are over and he can go and APC!
Basta....rd!

He should seek for second term. If he get two balls

So the debate is over, all the haters of Peter Obi and emergency lovers of LP can now rest...

Kenneth Okonkwo, you wanted Obi to act in a rascal & violent way to remove Abure. But Obi did it in a peaceful & non violent manner.
Kenneth you didn't understand Peter Obi, he is called Okwute for a reason.

These guys keep disturbing us with their useless internal matters

They've had more intra-party fight than any of the major two parties


If a mini club like this is already a big headache for Pity Girinngoory, then Nigeria is too big for his forefathers and him


Abure should work against LP in the Edo election

Is abure a chosen? Time will tell

Good riddance to bad Rubbish

He should continue being deceived

INEC will now help them kill off The Labour Party

Emergency lovers of Abure ..shey una don hear am?🤣🤣

Problem no dey finish!

rayvelez:
This useless Tinubu mole just dey disappoint

Ignorance is never an excuse, cane man give this Raymon Velez his 24 lashes.

No wonder peter obi abandoned him in his illegality.

He wanted obi to keep ing him after the expiration of his tenure like a dictator.

Odua4life:


https://guardian.ng/politics/abures-tenure-as-lp-boss-expired-in-june-2024-inec-insists/

Why is abure bent on being the chairman of labour party. If I were him, I go resign and never look back again.

rayvelez:
This useless Tinubu mole just dey disappoint

I thought that was Apapa?

Odua4life:
Scam party from the onset

dat is an understatement for where the demonic APC party dey!