The Labour Party holds a high-stakes National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
The meeting comes following the controversy over the recent Supreme Court judgement on the national chairmanship position for the Labour Party.
The meeting is taking place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel and is chaired by former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman.
Present at the meeting are the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, and the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti.
Senators and members of the House of Representatives who are members of the party are present.
Also present are governorship candidates of the party in Edo and Imo States, Olumide Akpata, and Athan Achonu.
In her opening remarks, the party’s Caretaker Committee Chairman announced that the NEC would review the recent governorship primaries held in Anambra State and communicate its official stance soon.
The primaries, conducted last Saturday in Awka, saw a former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, Chief George Moughalu, emerge as the candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the November 8, 2025, governorship election.
It is the last primaries held by the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee, days after the Supreme Court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja recognising Abure as the National Chairman of the LP.
In a unanimous ruling, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman of the LP, having earlier found that the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.
Last week, the apex court held that the issue of leadership was an internal affair of a party over which courts lacked jurisdiction, and noted that Abure’s tenure had since expired.
The court allowed the appeal filed by Senator Ester Usman, and one other and held that it was meritorious before subsequently proceeding to dismiss the cross-appeal filed by the Abure faction of the LP for being unmeritorious.
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