{"id":240777,"date":"2026-02-01T06:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/inec-delists-abure-led-labour-party-faction-from-its-portal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:36:28","slug":"inec-delists-abure-led-labour-party-faction-from-its-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/inec-delists-abure-led-labour-party-faction-from-its-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC delists Abure-led Labour Party faction from its portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<p><!-- .entry-header-outer \/--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted the names of members of the executive of the Julius Abure-led faction from its portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A check by POLITICS NIGERIA shows that the electoral body has removed all the names of the Abure-led executives for the party and replaced them with Nenadi Usman\u2019s faction as ordered by the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that the Federal High Court, sitting on January 21 in Abuja, sacked Abure as the National Chairman of the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Labour Party<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In its ruling, the court presided over by Peter Lifu cited the Supreme Court\u2019s April 4, 2025 verdict to declare the former Minister of Finance as the valid chairman of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Subsequently, on INEC\u2019s portal, Usman was listed as the Labour Party\u2019s National Chairman with a ticker stating that the change was made by the electoral body following the court order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also, Darlington Nwokocha, Hamisu Santuraki, Aisha Madije and Eric Ifere were listed as the new National Secretary, National Treasurer, National Financial Secretary and National Legal Adviser respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">INEC also indicated clearly that all the leaders of the party listed on the portal followed the order of the court. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted the names of members of the executive of the Julius Abure-led faction from its portal. A check by POLITICS NIGERIA shows that the electoral body has removed all the names of the Abure-led executives for the party and replaced them with Nenadi Usman\u2019s faction as ordered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1185,751,366,799],"class_list":["post-240777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-inec","tag-julius-abure","tag-labour-party","tag-nenadi-usman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_6015.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}