Otti’s LP camp submits contemporary NWC record to INEC

The Labour Party faction loyal to Abia State Governor Alex Otti and former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has forwarded a contemporary 34-man record of its Interim Nationwide Working Committee to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, a transfer that heightens the battle for management of the crisis-ridden social gathering.

The record, signed by Interim Nationwide Chairman, Nenadi Usman, and Interim Nationwide Secretary, Darlington Nwokocha, was despatched to INEC Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, on Friday.

Amongst different issues, the faction emphasised that the names “outmoded” an earlier abridged record submitted in August and those just lately submitted by Abure to the fee.

Within the cowl letter, the Usman-led management reminded the fee that the committee arose from the “statutory NEC resolutions of Friday 18th July, 2025” and was according to the Labour Party structure.

“We’re happy to ahead herewith the names and designations of the reconstituted members of the Interim Nationwide Management according to the LP structure and the statutory NEC resolutions of July 18, 2025 already forwarded to the fee within the social gathering’s correspondence and acknowledged by the fee on July 21, 2025,” Usman wrote.

She added that the NEC had empowered the interim management to “represent the complete physique of the interim nationwide management in accordance with Article 13 of the Labour Party structure.”

The faction harassed that INEC ought to “take authorized and official discover” of the forwarded names because the “reliable and genuine Interim Nationwide Working Committee management of the Labour Party.”

Other than Usman and Nwokocha, the 34-member record consists of Deputy Nationwide Chairman (TUC) Mohammed Misau; Deputy Nationwide Chairman (Feminine) Mrs Nike Oriola and Deputy Nationwide Chairman (NLC), Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku.

Different members embrace Eragbe Anselem, Sarah Bago, Hajia Aishat Madije, Hamisu San Turaki, Ife Salako, Chinelo Oforche, Eric Ifere, Edwin Bafteng, Gloria George-Omunu, Joseph Ndirang, Aminu Kanya, Prof Austin Akubue, Mrs Martina Umana and Femi Kehinde, amongst others.

The submission of the record got here barely 24 hours after one other camp of the social gathering, led by the Nationwide Chairman, Julius Abure, held a contemporary NEC assembly in Abuja attended by INEC officers and former vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.

The assembly, convened as a part of efforts to resolve the management tussle that erupted after the controversial 2024 nationwide conference in Nnewi, reaffirmed Abure as nationwide chairman—a place contested by Obi, Otti and different stakeholders, who in July, arrange a rival caretaker committee headed by Usman.

The transfer deepened a management break up that has dragged on for months, with either side citing court docket orders and constitutional provisions to justify their claims.

Addressing journalists after Friday’s assembly, Abure defined that NEC members leaned closely on the latest Supreme Courtroom pronouncements affirming that the management and inside affairs of political events have been non-justiciable.

He mentioned, “The NEC has the duty and energy to handle the affairs of political events between nationwide conventions in addition to to fill vacant positions. It is for that reason that we referred to as this assembly in order that we are able to do the needful, resolve all our crises, variations and strategically place the social gathering for the 2027 election.

“There isn’t any gainsaying the truth that there will probably be a starting of the existence of the Labour Party. That we’ve got come this far is a strong assertion that we’ve got made. Whether or not we prefer it or not, the LP has grow to be a reference level within the political firmament of Nigeria.”