The Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) has dismissed claims that the intervention of some stakeholders of the party at the September 4, 2024 Stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, saved the party from being deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Naija News understands that the Interim National Chairperson of the party, Nenadi Usman claimed that her committee saved the LP from being deregistered by INEC.
However, speaking via a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, said Usman’s submission is false.
He described the statement as ludicrous, unattainable, unsubstantiated, and a pack of lies.
He said, “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.”