Factional LP NEC dissolves Nenadi Usman caretaker committee

The Nationwide Govt Council of the Labour Party has dissolved the Nenadi Usman Caretaker Committee and reaffirmed its confidence within the Nationwide Working Committee led by Mr Julius Abure.

This was acknowledged in a launch issued by the Secretary of the NEC Discussion board, Alhaji Abdulrahim Chindo, in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Information Company of Nigeria studies that the NEC, comprising elected state chairmen and secretaries, adopted the resolutions throughout a digital assembly held on March 17, 2026.

The council additionally directed the Nationwide Chairman, Mr. Julius Abure, to subject related notices to INEC for the conduct of primaries for the 2027 Basic Election in step with the fee’s timetable.

“The next resolutions have been adopted: Arising from the Tribune publication of March 6, 2026, calling for each digital and bodily NEC conferences, this digital assembly turned crucial.

“The assembly was attended by state chairmen and secretaries validly elected on December 6, 2025, together with different outstanding occasion members.

“NEC in session reviewed the actions of the Caretaker Committee and concluded that it had achieved incalculable harm to the occasion since its inception, which was deemed unlawful.

“NEC consequently dissolved the Esther Nenadi Usman Caretaker Committee. NEC in session reaffirms its confidence within the Nationwide Working Committee led by Barrister Julius Abure, elected on the Nationwide Conference held on March 27, 2024, and reaffirmed by the NEC assembly on November 28, 2025, monitored by INEC.”

The assertion additional mentioned the NEC mandated Julius Abure and Umar Ibrahim to pursue the attraction pending on the Court docket of Appeal to put aside the judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu on January 21, 2026.

It added that Abure and Umar Ibrahim are to subject related notices to INEC for the conduct of primaries for the 2027 basic election as soon as the Federal Excessive Court docket judgment is overturned.

The NEC additionally nullified all notices beforehand issued to INEC by the Nenadi Usman Caretaker Committee.

(NAN)