The Labour Party convened a National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
This meeting comes in the wake of controversy surrounding the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the party’s national chairmanship position.
Held on Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, it was chaired by former Finance Minister Nenadi Usman.
Attendees included the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, his running mate Datti Baba-Ahmed, and the Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti.
Additionally, several party senators and members of the House of Representatives were present, as well as gubernatorial candidates for the party in Edo and Imo States, Olumide Akpata and Athan Achonu.
In her opening statement, the Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee announced that the LP would review its governorship primaries for Anambra State and communicate its official stance.
The primaries, which took place on Saturday in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, resulted in Chief George Moughalu, a former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, being selected as the Labour Party’s candidate for the governorship election scheduled for November 8, 2025.
This was the last set of primaries conducted under the National Working Committee led by Julius Abure, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal’s ruling that recognized Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.
In a unanimous decision, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court determined that the Court of Appeal did not have the jurisdiction to declare Abure the National Chairman, as the essence of the case pertained to the party’s leadership.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that leadership matters are internal affairs of a party that courts cannot adjudicate, indicating that Abure’s tenure had already expired. The court accepted the appeal filed by Senator Ester Usman and another party member as valid, while dismissing the cross-appeal from Abure’s faction as lacking merit.