Senator Nenadi Usman, Chairman of the Labour Party National Caretaker Committee (LP-NCC), has claimed that the committee’s swift intervention during a crucial September 4 stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, Abia State, helped the party avoid a major embarrassment.
According to the former Minister of Finance, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was on the verge of deregistering the Labour Party due to internal conflicts and a lack of legally recognized leadership.
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Usman explained that without the prompt actions taken at the Umuahia meeting, INEC would have had no choice but to remove the Labour Party from its records, thereby excluding it from future elections.
“We narrowly escaped being deregistered, and that was a significant victory for our party,” she said.
Speaking after the committee’s first meeting in Abuja, Usman reaffirmed her commitment to uniting the party, vowing to operate an inclusive, transparent policy that would bring together all factions and members.
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She emphasized that no side was defeated in resolving the party’s internal conflicts, stating, “No group or faction should feel embarrassed. We all won together as one political family under the law.”
Usman urged all aggrieved members to set aside their differences and collaborate with the caretaker committee to rebuild the “Papa, Mama, and Pikin” party.
Her committee’s goal, she said, is to organize state congresses within the next three months, culminating in a transparent national convention that will elect a substantive National Executive Committee (NEC) and National Working Committee (NWC) to lead the party forward.
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Also addressing the party’s internal issues, Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku, Acting Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Political Commission, called on all members to put aside their grievances and work with the Caretaker Committee to ensure the Labour Party moves forward successfully.
