Labour Party in Disarray as INEC Annuls Leadership, Declared Ultra vires

With a biting criticism, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has repudiated the Labour Party’s leadership, including Chairman Julius Abure, null and void.

This blunt statement was made in rejoinder to the Labour Party’s lawsuit challenging their exclusion from INEC’s training for the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections.

INEC’s legal team, led by Tanko Inuwa (SAN), uncorked a barrage of arguments, asserting that the Labour Party’s suit was nothing more than a desperate attempt to cling to power. “LP’s suit is a mere charade, seeking declaratory reliefs without a shred of legitimacy,” they declared.

The commission’s jurists excoriated the Labour Party for breaching the Constitution, Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and their own Constitution 2019.

“LP’s national convention was a sham, a blatant disregard for the law,” they thundered.

As of August 16, 2024, INEC authoritatively certified that Labour party’s leadership had expired, leaving them without a valid national chairman or secretary.

“Labour party is a rudderless ship, devoid of leadership and legitimacy,” INEC’s legal team concluded. “We will not engage with a party that has demonstrated such brazen disregard for the law.”