Breaking: INEC Withdraws Acknowledgment of Julius Abure as LP National Chairman

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revoked its accreditation of Julius Abure as the Labour Party’s national chairman, citing the Supreme Court’s legally binding ruling from April 4, 2025, and the expiration of his term.
After months of turmoil, the party’s leadership crisis seems to have been resolved by the Commission’s sworn counter-affidavit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
According to the Supreme Court’s decision in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which rejected Abure’s allegations for lack of jurisdiction and overturned all previous decisions that upheld his leadership, INEC stated in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 that Abure’s term ended in June 2024.

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The defendant (INEC) cannot accept and issue access codes for the upload of candidates’ nomination forms (EC9, EC9F, and EC9G) for the by-election scheduled for 16/8/2025 to the plaintiff (Abure-led LP), according to Ayuba Mohammed, INEC’s Executive Officer (Litigation and Prosecution), who deposed to the affidavit. This is because, as stated in Exhibit INEC 2, the defendant does not have a legitimate National Chairman and National Secretary to deal with.

When Abure claimed re-election at the contentious National Convention in Nnewi on March 27, 2024, INEC insisted that it neither observed nor recognized the event, claiming it violated the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022 and its regulations, and the constitution of the Labour Party.