The Labour Party National Transition Committee (LP-NTC) has alleged that Julius Abure-led faction of the party is planning another national convention to legitimise his leadership.

Abure was last July, walked out of a consultative meeting the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) holds every quarter with Chairmen and Secretaries of registered political parties.

LP-NTC Chairman, Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, said in a statement issued on Monday that Abure is seeking to “Conduct a second convention in five months instead of the statutory four years circle,” to legitimise his leadership.

Some members of the party had in March this year, held an elective National Convention in Nnewi, Anambra State where Abure and other members of his National Working Committee (NWC) were said to have been re-elected.

The LP-NTC alleged that Abure has called for Labour Party membership registration and validation exercise towards holding congresses and national convention in the name of party.

Omar who said Abure has been suspended from the party, warned Labour Party stakeholders to be wary of Abure’s planned convention, which he said, is going to ridicule the party after INEC and leaders of the party including Mr Peter Obi, have condemned and rejected the Nnewi convention.

He stated that the INEC is religiously enforcing the rejection of Abure as National Chairman of the Labour Party, alleging that Edo State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Anugbum Onuoha, handed the register of voters and other sensitive election information meant for the September 21 governorship election in the state, to

Party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, instead of Mrs Elizabeth Ativie who Abure appointed party Chairman in Edo State.

“Both actions of INEC above clearly underscore that before the law, anything touched, handled, processed, organised, conducted or contaminated by Mr Julius Abure and or his assigned minions is political leprosy before the law and will end in disastrous nullity akin to the classic precedents of our often referenced Zamfara and Plateau state electoral disasters of 2019 and 2023 respectively.

“That with all the above incontestable evidences of Julius Abure’s tenure expiration, rational thinking persons must wonder what still emboldens him and his co-conspirators against the peace and progress of Labour Party,” he wondered.

Omar alleged that Abure and his faction were being financed by the ruling party to organise a national convention, and promised to fund the court processes that would follow against the genuine one to be conducted Labour Party.

“The goal of the scheme is to ensure maximum anarchy of internal rancour designed to tear and disintegrate the Labour Party to ‘hopeless shreds’ so that by 2027 general elections, the Labour Party would be a feckless shadow of itself incapable of posing any electoral challenge to the chaos sponsoring ruling political party.

“In return for their mission, the providers of trouble capital would endow Abure and his team ministerial and senatorial slots in 2027,” he stated. (New Telegraph)

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