INEC In Attendance As Labour Party NEC Reaffirms Abure Led NWC And 2024 Nnewi National Convention.
The Labour Party on Friday 28th November 2025 held her National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the Party’s National Headquarters, Utako Abuja.
The meeting was attended by members of the National Working Committee (NWC), National Officers of the Party, Co-opted members in line with article 13( A)of the party constitution . Also in attendance were the 2023 Vice Presidential candidate of the party , Sen Datti Baba Ahmed and a team of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) led by Rakiya Dattijo of the INEC’s election and party monitoring department (EPM).
The communique which was jointly signed the party’s National Chairman and the National Secretary, Bar Julius Abure and Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim reaffirmed the 2024 Nnewi convention as being in line with Supreme Court Judgement which gives powers to political parties to decide their leadership.
The communique read in part: “The NEC in session notes and recalls vividly the following Supreme Court pronouncements:
“The reason for the non-justiciability of internal disputes of a political party is simple, and that is that in the eyes of the law, a political party is a corporate entity with its constitution, rules, regulations, and guidelines which are binding on members who have joined freely have consented to be so bound (See Abegunde Vs. Ondo State House of Assembly & Ors. (2025) LPELR-24588 (SC).)
“Political Parties have put in place diverse kinds of internal dispute resolution mechanisms to handle any matter arising from disputes among members.
“Political parties and their members should therefore have faith in the internal dispute resolution mechanisms prescribed in their party constitution.
“Having subscribed to the membership of a Political party, a member of a Political party has by his membership agreed to be bound by the constitution and the decision of the party contained in its guidelines.
“ So the Politician must comply with the provisions of the party constitution on how disputes over the internal affairs of the party can be resolved in keeping with the legal doctrine that the internal affairs of a Political party are non-justiceable and therefore not subject to the judicial powers of the courts..”
“Consequent upon the above, NEC in session reaffirmed those elected as National officers of the Party at the National Convention held in 2024 in Anambra State on the 27th of March 2024.”
Those elected were the current 17 member National Working Committee led by the National Chai6Bsr Julius Abure.
The party’s NEC also mandated the National Chairman and Secretary to convene a Special Convention “if necessary”.
The party also filled vacant positions in the NEC including the appointment of Oluwafemi Abayomi Arabambi as the National Vice Chairman South West,
Prince Favour Reuben as the Assistant National Organizing Secretary and Barr. Enu Kikanwa as Assistant National Woman Leader South South.
The communique added, “NEC in session ratified the decision to hold Ward, Local Government, and State Congresses across the Federation.”
