{"id":72345,"date":"2025-08-06T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72345"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:42:11","slug":"abure-led-labour-party-faction-protests-at-inec-headquarters-over-candidate-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/abure-led-labour-party-faction-protests-at-inec-headquarters-over-candidate-omission\/","title":{"rendered":"Abure-Led Labour Party Faction Protests at INEC Headquarters Over Candidate Omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A deepening leadership crisis within the Labour Party (LP), played out in Abuja on Tuesday as a faction led by Julius Abure staged a protest at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>The group accused the electoral body of unlawfully omitting its candidates from the list for the upcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Area Council and National Assembly bye-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans and wielding placards, the protesters demanded immediate rectification, insisting their candidates were duly nominated.<\/p>\n<p>However, the party\u2019s officially recognized leadership, headed by Interim National Chairman Alhaji Lamidi Apapa and recently reinforced by the emergence of Senator Nenadi Usman, disassociated itself from the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Usman\u2019s office described the protesters as &#8220;impostors,&#8221; stating the protest was unauthorized and not representative of the party&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>The protest marks another flashpoint in the ongoing tussle for control of the LP.<\/p>\n<p>The Usman-led faction backed by Abia State Governor Alex Otti maintains that Abure&#8217;s tenure ended in 2023, citing a Supreme Court judgment.<\/p>\n<p>The Abure group, however, insists he remains the legitimate national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>This internal dispute, which has resulted in the rejection of rival candidate lists, is threatening to undermine the party\u2019s preparations ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo A deepening leadership crisis within the Labour Party (LP), played out in Abuja on Tuesday as a faction led by Julius Abure staged a protest at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The group accused the electoral body of unlawfully omitting its candidates from the list for the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72347,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72345\/revisions\/72347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}