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…As Prince Tony Akeni, Engr. Nwauwa Re-appointed Acting National Publicity Secretary, National Secretary

The Board of Trustees (BoT) and the statutory National Executive Council (NEC), quorum of the Labour Party of Nigeria, have reaffirmed their decision to dissolve the interim National Working Committee (iNWC) led by Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha, insisting that the dissolution remains valid, binding and irrevocable.

The party leadership stated that the dissolution was officially and publicly communicated to the dissolved committee through a letter dated December 3, 2025, which was served on the affected officers and attached as Annexure 1.

According to the BoT and NEC, a joinder court action instituted by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), described as the institutional founder and owner of the Labour Party, against the affected party leaders had already been served on Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha on December 2, 2025. The matter was subsequently heard at the Federal High Court, Abuja (FCT), on December 3, 2025.

These disclosures were contained in a statement signed by Prince Tony Akeni, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, who has since been re-appointed in that capacity by the Board of Trustees.

The statement clarified that the statutory NEC and BoT of the Labour Party maintained that the list of State Interim Executive Councils submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the dissolved Nenadi Usman committee were, in large part, products of the former National Transition Committee (NTC) established by the NLC in 2024.

In view of this, the party leadership reassured members across the states whose names appeared on the lists submitted to INEC that those who genuinely earned their positions through years of sacrifice and loyalty to the authentic Labour Party founded and promoted by the NLC would retain their positions. It added that individuals described as Trojan infiltrators, allegedly sponsored by harmful external interests, would be meticulously identified and removed without reservation.

Recalling the circumstances surrounding the emergence of the dissolved committee, the statement noted that the Senator Nenadi Usman-led iNWC was inaugurated on September 4, 2024, in Umuahia, Abia State, with a 90-day mandate to conduct nationwide state congresses and an all-inclusive national convention. This mandate, it stated, was in compliance with the Justice Gabriel Kolawale consent judgment of March 20, 2018, as well as an INEC-brokered terms of settlement agreement between the NLC and the former Labour Party national executive council led by Mr. Julius Abure, a judgment described as universally irrevocable but allegedly abandoned by the Abure leadership.

The statement further alleged that Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha comprehensively failed to execute their mandate, even after 315 days from the September 4, 2024 inauguration. It disclosed that an additional 90-day extension was granted to them by the statutory NEC on July 18, 2025, to carry out the same assignment, but that this extended mandate also expired on October 17, 2025, without the conduct of a single ward congress anywhere in the country.

Drawing comparisons, the BoT and NEC observed that within the same period, other political parties, including the African Democratic Congress (ADC), made what it described as gigantic progress, culminating in the successful admission and upload of their NEC officers by INEC onto the electoral commission’s portal. This, the statement said, enabled the ADC to emerge as a coalition party within just 100 days of its adoption by coalescing parties on June 2, 2025, while similar progress remained elusive under the Nenadi–Nwaokocha leadership after nearly 500 days.

The party leadership also lamented that under the Nenadi Usman–Nwaokocha iNWC, the Labour Party was allegedly excluded by INEC from participating in all local council elections, state and National Assembly by-elections across Nigeria throughout 2025, as well as the forthcoming February 2026 Abuja FCT municipal council elections. This development was described as a disastrous consequence of leadership slumber and competence deficit, which purportedly triggered massive defections and loss of party members nationwide.

Further condemning the performance of the dissolved interim leadership, the BoT and NEC stated that throughout the nearly 500 days following the September 4, 2024 inauguration, neither Senator Nenadi Usman, as national chairman, nor Senator Nwaokocha, as national secretary, convened a single meeting of the iNWC to deliberate on the party’s numerous challenges or possible solutions.

According to the statement, persistent warnings and counsel from concerned NLC representatives within the iNWC on the dangers of prolonged stagnation were ignored until Saturday, November 29, 2025, when the duo reportedly convened the first-ever iNWC meeting. The leadership alleged that the meeting was convened solely to summarily sack all NLC representatives on the committee, except for a few individuals described as compromised supporters, who were then replaced with loyalists.

The statement said that as the party continued to hemorrhage members through defections amid what it termed indifference, gross incompetence and tyranny, the statutory NEC quorum and BoT resolved to dissolve the Nenadi Usman-led interim National Working Committee on December 3, 2025. By that date, it added, the committee’s final extended mandate had already expired on October 17, 2025.

The BoT and NEC further alleged that on December 4, 2025, the dissolved committee forged the signatures of the Labour Party’s BoT chairman and secretary on forged party letterhead and used them to issue what it described as a criminally false disclaimer, which was circulated nationwide through multiple media channels. The alleged forged disclaimer, according to the statement, was attached as Annexure 2.

Following this development, the statutory NEC quorum and the Board of Trustees disclosed that they wrote and served Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha with a seven-day notice on December 5, 2025, demanding that the individuals responsible for the alleged forgery be produced for prosecution, failing which collective legal action would be initiated against the defunct committee.

Appointments

Concluding the statement, the party leadership announced that following the dissolution of the Nenadi Usman iNWC on December 3, 2025, and in order to keep party members and the Nigerian public adequately informed of developments, the statutory NEC quorum and the Board of Trustees have re-appointed Comrade (Prince) Tony Akeni as Acting National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party. It also announced the re-appointment of Engr. Nwauwa Nnawuihie as Acting National Secretary 1 of the party.

The statement added that these appointments would be followed promptly by the constitution of a full interim National Working Committee in line with the party’s constitutional provisions, noting that the letters of appointment were attached as Annexures 003 and 004 respectively.

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