Factions of the Labour Party (LP) have summoned separate National Executive Council (NEC) meetings, each claiming the move is aimed at repositioning the party.
While the faction led by the National Chairman, Mr. Julius Abure, scheduled its NEC meeting to hold at the party’s national secretariat in Utako, Abuja, on Monday, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, and the Governor of Abia State, Mr. Alex Otti, have convened their own NEC meeting for April 9, also in Abuja.
The development signals that the party’s leadership crisis is far from over.
A statement from the Obi-led group said the upcoming NEC meeting “is a follow-up to the Supreme Court ruling last week, terminating the Julius Abure-led NWC.”
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The statement further explained that the NEC meeting “shall be followed concurrently by an interactive town hall engagement with major stakeholders and other organs of the party at Transcorp Hilton Hotel.”
It added: “The stakeholders listed to attend the meeting include the Vice Presidential candidate for the 2023 election, serving and former Senators and Senatorial candidates of the LP in the 2023 election, serving and former Members of the House of Representatives and LP candidates in the 2023 election, all members of the National Caretaker Committee and NTC, all former governorship candidates who are still in the party, representatives of the NLC/TUC Political Commission, and all members of the former LP National Working Committee.”
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