The leadership faction of the Labour Party (LP) has formally submitted a list of 34 members to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its Interim National Working Committee.
The submission was confirmed in an official communique dated November 27, 2025, jointly signed by the Interim National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, and the Interim National Secretary, Darlington Nwokocha.
The letter was addressed to the INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, and stamped “received” by the commission on Friday, November 28, 2025.
In a detailed cover letter accompanying the submission, the Usman-led leadership anchored its move on the party’s constitution and a July 18, 2025, National Executive Council (NEC) resolution, which it said empowered the faction to constitute an interim national leadership for the party.
She urged INEC to recognise the names submitted as the legitimate leadership of the LP. Usman said, “We are pleased to forward herewith the names and designations of the reconstituted members of the Interim National Leadership in line with the LP constitution and the statutory NEC resolutions of July 18, 2025 already forwarded to the commission in the party’s correspondence and acknowledged by the commission on July 21, 2025.”
She added that the NEC empowered her faction to “constitute the full body of the interim national leadership in accordance with Article 13 of the Labour Party constitution.”
However, the move comes on the heels of a rival NEC meeting convened on Thursday by Julius Abure, which reaffirmed him as the National Chairman.
The new list reminded INEC that its Interim National Leadership emerged from “statutory NEC resolutions of Friday 18th July 2025” and aligns with Article 13 of the party’s constitution.
Usman urged INEC to take legal and official notice of the forwarded names as the legitimate and authentic Interim National Working Committee leadership of the Labour Party.
Aside from Usman and Nwokocha, the 34-member list includes Deputy National Chairman (TUC), Mohammed Misau; Deputy National Chairman (Female), Mrs Nike Oriola; and Deputy National Chairman (NLC), Prof Theophilus Ndubuaku.
Other members of the INWC include: Eragbe Anselem, Sarah Bago, Hajia Aishat Madije, Hamisu San Turaki, Ife Salako, Chinelo Oforche, Eric Ifere, Edwin Bafteng, Gloria George-Omunu, Joseph Ndirang, Aminu Kanya, Prof Austin Akubue, Mrs Martina Umana and Femi Kehinde, among others.
The submission of the list came barely 24 hours after another camp of the party, led by the National Chairman, Julius Abure, held a fresh NEC meeting in Abuja attended by INEC officials and former vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
