The performing Nationwide Chairman of the Labour Celebration, Senator Nenadi Usman, has slammed the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, for permitting factional nationwide chairman of the get together, Julius Abure, to be current on the quarterly consultative assembly between INEC and leaders of political events.
LP described INEC’s motion as an affront to the judgment of the Supreme Courtroom.
Referencing the apex court docket judgment of April 4, 2025, in Enchantment No. SC/CV/56/2025, Usman reminded INEC of the Supreme Courtroom’s “unanimous landmark judgement” which declared that “Abure was not the Nationwide Chairman of the Labour Celebration.”
She accused some individuals who she known as “rogue parts inside INEC” for allowing Abure’s attendance on the assembly, including that such “is just not solely reprehensible but in addition a deliberate affront to the authority of our courts.”
In keeping with the Labour Celebration the electoral umpire can not, in a single breath, depose beneath oath that Abure is not chairman, and in one other, accord him recognition.
The get together mentioned such conduct quantities to contempt of court docket and a grave desecration of the sanctity of our judicial system, notably the pronouncements of the Supreme Courtroom.
An announcement signed by Usman’s Senior Particular Adviser, Media, Ken Asogwa, on Tuesday, questioned the place INEC derived the authority to override and overrule the varied court docket pronouncements sacking Abure as LP nationwide chief, therefore enabling “Abure’s participation in at the moment’s assembly?
“This reckless show of impunity is unacceptable and have to be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.
“Whereas the present INEC management could also be transitional, it should do not forget that even a short tenure can depart an enduring stain on historical past. Each motion taken at the moment can be judged tomorrow. Posterity information all the pieces,” she said.
Whereas calling on INEC to right away implement the legitimate judgements of the courts concerning the management of the get together, the get together cautioned, “if the present management lacks the braveness to uphold the rule of legislation, it ought to at the least chorus from additional tarnishing what stays of the Fee’s credibility earlier than its eventual exit.”
The assertion learn partly, “The Labour Celebration has famous, with deep concern, experiences that the erstwhile Nationwide Chairman of the Celebration, Barr. Julius Abure, attended the quarterly consultative assembly between the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and leaders of political events held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025.
“Whereas this brazen act of impersonation might seem comical to some, it’s, in fact, a tragic reflection of the extent to which sure parts inside INEC are prepared to compromise the integrity of the Fee by lending themselves to such ignoble conduct – in utter defiance of legitimate and subsisting court docket judgements, together with that of the Supreme Courtroom of Nigeria.
“For the avoidance of doubt, on 4th April 2025, the Supreme Courtroom of Nigeria, in Enchantment No. SC/CV/56/2025, delivered a unanimous landmark judgement unequivocally declaring that Barr. Julius Abure was not the Nationwide Chairman of the Labour Celebration.
“This pronouncement was additional strengthened by the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Abuja, in Go well with No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, delivered on fifteenth August 2025, which expressly rejected Julius Abure’s prayers primarily based on the sooner judgement of the apex court docket that held that he was not the nationwide chairman of the Labour Celebration.”
The get together added: “Whereas the present INEC management could also be transitional, it should do not forget that even a short tenure can depart an enduring stain on historical past. Each motion taken at the moment can be judged tomorrow. Posterity information all the pieces.”
It, subsequently, known as on the electoral fee to right away implement the legitimate judgements of courts concerning the management of the get together, saying “if the present management lacks the braveness to uphold the rule of legislation, it ought to at the least chorus from additional tarnishing what stays of the Fee’s credibility earlier than its eventual exit.”
