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From Sola Ojo, Abuja
A fresh crisis has erupted within the Labour Party as the Board of Trustees (BOT) and members of the National Executive Council (NEC) have announced the expiration and dissolution of the party’s interim National Working Committee (iNWC) led by Senator Nenadi Esther Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha.
This development is expected to trigger another round of power tussles within the already fractured Labour Party in coming days.
In a notice dated December 2, the BOT declared that the interim leadership had failed woefully to meet the mandate given to them, including organising nationwide congresses and a national convention to elect substantive party executives.
The letter jointly signed by the BOT chairman, S.O.Z. Ejiofor and the secretary, Salisu Mohammed, suggested that the statutory NEC would meet soon to reconstitute a new National Working Committee in line with the party’s constitution and the Electoral Act 2022.
The committee, inaugurated on September 4, 2024, in Umuahia, Abia State, was initially given 90 days but allegedly failed to deliver after more than 400 days in office.
The BOT further revealed that even after being granted an additional 90 days during a NEC meeting on July 18, 2025, the interim leaders again failed to achieve any meaningful progress before the October 17, 2025 deadline.
According to the BOT, the alleged incompetence of the dissolved committee had led to a nationwide desertion, collapse of internal confidence and crippling setbacks ahead of the 2027 general elections.
It warned that the party was drifting dangerously off the course under the interim leadership.
The BOT, however, ordered Senator Usman, Senator Nwaokocha, and members of the iNWC to immediately halt all activities being carried out in the name of the party and hand over all party documents to the BOT secretary.
