S’Court Judgment: NLC asks INEC to remove insignia of Abure, LP NWC from portal

Following crisis rocking the Labour Party, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, said that it will no longer condone the antics of inconsequential characters in the party.

In a statement titled: “Nigerian workers, genuine labour party members and lovers of democracy be on standby,” which was issued by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, the Labour Center called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to give full effect to the Supreme Court judgement by removing every insignia of Abure and his National Working Committee, NWC, from its portals.

NLC also put all the security agencies especially the Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service on notice that they have a constitutional duty to enable and enforce the judgement of the Supreme Court.

The statement read: “Following the explicit and unambiguous judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered on Friday, 4th April 2025 declaring that the tenure of Mr. Julius Abure and his National Working Committee has elapsed and that Mr. Abure and members of his National Working Committee are not recognised by law as constituting the leadership of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Julius Abure has been releasing press statements rejecting the straightforward pronouncement of the Supreme Court and insisting that his leadership of the Labour Party is still in intact.

“The current affront of Mr. Julius Abure and co-travellers against the law especially his resistance to the pronouncement of the highest court in Nigeria has convinced those who doubted our earlier position that Mr. Julius Abure and the few miscreants following him have sworn themselves to utter impunity, crass disdain for decency and utmost disrespect to Nigeria’s laws.

“While every right thinking Nigerian expected Mr. Julius Abure and the few desperadoes around him to accept the Supreme Court judgement that affirmed what the NLC has been saying for a long time about the expiration of his purported tenure as Labour Party Chairman, they have taken steps to hold the judgment of the Supreme Court in grave contempt.

“In the process of their reckless assault against the grain of constitutionality and the rule of law, they have falsely claimed that the Nigeria Labour Congress has planned to stage an attack against Labour Party offices.

“We use this medium to put every Nigerian worker, labour party members and patriotic citizens on alert. We will no longer condone the antics of inconsequential characters like Mr. Julius Abure whose only relevance is their availability for mischief and inanity at the behest of silhouettes in the corridors of power”.