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On its website, the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, has re-instated Julius Abure as the Labour Party’s national chairman.

Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim was also re-elected by INEC to serve as the party’s national secretary.

The electoral umpire stated that a court order served as the basis for the reenlistment.

On its website, the electoral body also lists Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national secretary.

The Commission did not, however, specify if the development was predicated on a court order.

Recall that earlier rulings by the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal that acknowledged Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party were overturned by the Supreme Court last month.

Since then, Abure has persisted in claiming the position, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling that his chairmanship is a matter within the Labour Party and is therefore not subject to judicial review.

However, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi, insists the decision essentially fired Abure, and they are demanding the legitimacy of the Caretaker Committee, which was led by Senator Nenadi Usman.

On April 9, 2025, Otti formally gave a Certified True Copy of the Supreme Court ruling about the party’s leadership to INEC.

He claimed that the action was taken to promote institutional alignment, mutual understanding, and clarity on the LP’s current structure.

After the Commission reviewed the Certified True Copy of the Supreme Court ruling, Abure’s name was reportedly re-enlisted.

According to the ZINGTIE, the Supreme Court also reversed the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court rulings that dismissed Anyanwu as the PDP’s national secretary in March.

Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye, who was purportedly selected by a few party governors, had been engaged in a lengthy leadership battle prior to that.

Similar to the LP case, the Supreme Court stressed that the subject was still an internal PDP problem and declared that lower courts lacked the authority to consider it from the outset.

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