INEC reinstates LP’s Abure, PDP’s Anyanwu names on order of court

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has re-enlisted the name of Julius Abure on its website as the National Chairman of Labour Party, Vanguard checks have revealed.

It also re-enlisted Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim as National Secretary of the party.

According to the commission, the reenlistment was based on an order of court.

The commission equally has Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. It did not however indicate whether the decision was based on a court order.

The Supreme Court had last month set aside earlier decisions of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal which recognised Mr Abure as Labour Party’s National Chairman.

Since then, Abure had continued to lay claim to the seat, relying on the apex court’s decision that the issue of his chairmanship remained an internal affair of the Labour Party and was therefore not justiceable.

However, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi had insisted on the validity of a Caretaker Committee, chaired by Senator Nenadi Usman, saying the ruling effectively sacked Abure.