Labour Party crisis deepens as Abure, Okafor engage in fresh altercation

The meeting of the National Working Committee of the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party on Tuesday sparked a fresh altercation with facial chairman Callistus Okafor, declaring the meeting a nullity and lacking the power to do so.

Okafor, in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, insisted that the purported meeting by Julius Abure was illegal, saying he has no right to call for a National Working Committee, NWC meeting after his tenure expired.

Okafor, who was reacting to the communiqué the Abure-led NWC issued, called for an inclusive convention as a way to implement the consent judgement entered into in 2018.

He claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, rejected the leadership of Julius Abure following the recent crisis in the party.

Speaking to journalists separately, the chairman of the National Transition Committee of the Labour Party, Omar Abdulwaheed, warned Julius Abure to stop parading himself as national chairman of the party, stating that his tenure expired on June 9, 2024.

The National Transition Committee was set up by the Political Commission of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on April 14, 2024, to reposition the party’s leadership.