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Amid the internal leadership crises rocking the Labour Party (LP), the national secretary of the prty, Alhaji Umar Faruk, has said that the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC) has overcome its legal challenges. He said he was optimistic that the party will bounce back in readiness for the 2026 local government elections in the FCT and the 2027 presidential election.
He noted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has remained unfazed even as the party constitution is without contradiction about leadership succession, while condescending to Sen. Nenadi Usman’s alleged impersonation.
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Now that Barrister Julius Abure has been reinstalled by the INEC, when is the LP kicking off preparation for the 2026 local government elections?
You know Labour Party supporters are organic, particularly in the FCT where we have enlightened voters. The party and its candidates are campaigning vigorously to ensure we win the election. The grand flag-off campaign is scheduled for January 2026. The Labour Party is finally regaining stability after its failed hijacking attempt. It hurts her. The structures are consolidating. The state and LGA congresses are approaching. The 2026 FCT elections are near. The 2027 general elections are not far behind, and we are going to surpass the 2023 elections record in the FCT.
And just when the party is preparing to organise, here comes Nenadi again, dragging the party back to court, back into crisis, back into the chaos she thrives in. This time, she is begging the court to order INEC to replace Abure’s name on their portal with hers.
This latest outburst could have been triggered by a development she never expected.
Do you hope that those who dumped the party over crises will still come back to contest on the party’s platform?
Of course, we have extended our hands of comradeship to all members of the party who were innocently misled to join Senator Nenadi Usman. They should come back to join hands with Abure to regain the strength of the party and face the 2027 elections. As we have always said, there is no more automatic ticket for anyone, and I think that it behoves on each of them to make choices in 2027. Our concern is that those we looked up to, have abandoned the party that gave them a credible platform when they needed it most.
Do you see Datti Ahmed and Mr. Peter Obi slugging it out in LP presidential primaries?
I don’t see any struggle between the two. I say so because their political paths are already defined. However, in politics, anything can happen. I should not predict much because those in the political wilderness may realise it to come back. They were together in 2023 and performed creditably well, so whatever forms their 2027 ambition is left for them. But as I said earlier, the party is waxing stronger and well. What I am telling our numerous party faithful is that the LP will surely bounce back to surpass its achievements.
What gives your NWC this confidence to continue fighting?
We have always been on the side of the law. We conduct our activities in accordance with the constitution of our party and the Electoral Act. That’s where we derive our confidence. If you can recall, we have never missed the track on the legal ground. We have always come out victorious even at the height of controversy caused by Governor Otti and others.
Why do you think Sen. Nenadi Usman is impersonating the interim National Chairman of LP?
It is desperation, there comes a time in politics when ambition crosses the line into obsession, and obsession mutates into something darker, a kind of political intoxication that disconnects a person completely from reality. That is exactly where Senator Nenadi Usman has found herself today -swimming in the hallucination that the Supreme Court judgment of April 4th, 2025 was delivered in her favour, even though every line of that judgment exposes the opposite.
Only someone under the influence of a strange, overpowering political substance could keep repeating the same false claim with such confidence. This is no longer a strategy but a devastating delusion, desperation with the signature of a fallen Lucifer. Instead of providing leadership, she is championing sabotage.
Does the stand of INEC indicate the judgment favours the Abure-led NWC?
The Supreme Court did not declare Nenadi as the National Chairman, not even by suggestion. The Supreme Court did not remove Julius Abure as National Chairman of the Labour Party. The Supreme Court did not authorise the chaos she is desperately trying to manufacture today. But instead of accepting reality, Nenadi continues to twist the meaning of the judgment like someone enchanted by a political hallucination, clutching a document that does not validate her claims, waving it like a trophy only she can see.
You have alleged that Sen. Usman is working for the ADC coalition; do you have evidence?
If Nenadi truly believes she had a mandate, she would not be clinging to court corridors like a drowning politician fighting for oxygen. Instead of moving on with her official assignment in ADC, she has intensified her mission not to lead, not to build, not to reform the Labour Party, but to destroy, destabilise, and distract a political movement preparing for the 2026 FCT council elections and the 2027 general elections. If she cannot control the Labour Party, then the Labour Party must not rise. This is the classic behaviour of a political spoiler, the kind who believes that if she cannot sit on the throne, the palace should be burnt to ashes.
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If anyone still doubted Senator Nenadi Usman’s mission, her conduct at the Federal High Court on November 25 has finally removed all pretences. What we are witnessing is not the pursuit of justice or the defence of party democracy. It is the latest chapter in a long, exhausting pattern of deliberate destabilisation. A strategy she deployed in Lagos, repeated in Anambra, and is now being weaponised nationally.
For months, Nenadi has clung to the Supreme Court judgment of April 4 like a political life jacket, twisting its content, misrepresenting its implications, and claiming victories that simply do not exist, even after independent legal experts, party organs, and court records made the truth embarrassingly clear.
Can you say something about this Abure’s romance with Datti Ahmed?
That is a member of the LP and the 2023 Vice-Presidential candidate. Many people thought wrongly when they felt that where Peter Obi stands, he stands. But that is the nature of a real man. Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed’s political romance with the Abure-led leadership presently unsettles them.
The recently concluded LP International and Diaspora Affairs virtual conference, where Datti was billed to feature, did not sit well with her. Because she cannot afford not to be the centre of attraction, she rushed to stage her own diaspora virtual meeting. Such is Nenadi, very predictable. Datti’s endorsement of the Julius Abure-led leadership rattled her camp.
It demolished their propaganda headquarters.
It exposed their illusion. And it pushed her into yet another round of frantic litigation.
This is not a coincidence. This is what defines her principles. This is her pattern.
She did it in Lagos, she scattered the party before the council elections. She did it in Anambra, she ensured the Labour Party was not in the by-election. And now she aims to do it again nationally before the FCT council polls and the 2027 general elections.
Why do you think she keeps fighting back?
To weaken the Labour Party so it does not pose a threat to the ADC coalition.
This woman is the Kaduna State chairperson of the ADC coalition, and her desperation to see the Labour Party crippled must be understood in that context. Her cruel mission has never been about justice. It has never been about leadership. It has never been about the Supreme Court. It is about a destructive, vindictive, anti-party strategy. Nenadi and her cohorts are the classic political spoilers. When they are not on the throne, they burn the palace. When they cannot own the structure, they cripple it.
When they cannot lead, they destabilise those who can. Her presence is collateral damage, driven not by vendetta. If the Labour Party cannot kneel before her unlawful faction, then the Labour Party should not rise at all.
But here is the truth she refuses to accept: History never remembers saboteurs as heroes. Destabilisers never win legacy battles.
And no amount of courtroom theatrics can overturn political reality.
How soon shall this wrangling end to enable you to prepare for 2027?
December 3 will come. The law will speak.
The party will stabilise. And Nenadi will face the one thing she has spent years running from, a Labour Party that moves on without her. Everywhere she enters, the party becomes embroiled in needless conflict, confusion, and crisis. She thrives in chaos because chaos is her only political oxygen. The Labour Party’s planned nationwide state and LG congresses are her breaking point. The news burned her pride. It shattered the illusion she had been carrying since April. Nenadi’s switch into attack mode is simply another cycle of hostility, bitterness, and petition-writing. The Labour Party state and local government congresses will proceed smoothly under the stable leadership and supervision of Julius Abure. And we know she cannot stand the thought of the party moving forward without her.
But you know that Sen. Nenadi has not been alone in this fight?
Yes, we know, but she should have known better as a former lawmaker. Nenadi’s obsession is with politics, raw and destructive. She wants the Labour Party crippled. She wants it internally divided. She wants it to be distracted from building structures. She wants it unprepared for the elections that matter.
Everyone is aware that her sponsor, the governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, believes the Labour Party does not have the money to hire SANs as they have done, but God will disgrace them. Otti wants the destabilisation to continue so he can finally muzzle and frustrate the intended congresses in Abia State, but the Labour Party is one step ahead of him.
