The interim National Chairman, Labour Party, LP, Senator Nenadi Usman has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has recognised her as the Chairperson of the party.
She noted that only one party, being her side of the LP, will be on the ballot going forward.
Speaking on Arise News, she pointed out that at this point, only her part of the party can write to INEC to attend the party’s primary election or congresses and not the faction lead by Abure.
According to her, there is no ambiguity about who the true leader of the party is.
“With the recognition by INEC, it means only one party, which is mine, would be on the ballot and it means we are the only ones who can write INEC and INEC would come and attend primary elections we are conducting, or congresses, or whatever.
“So it means that there will be no ambiguity about who is the leader and which part of the party is the party. So one more thing I want to say is, you know, at this point in time, people are actually supposed to be thinking first about Nigeria secondly, about the Labor Party.
“If you love Nigeria, you love the Labor Party, there’s a limit to what you do and extent to which you would go fighting each other.
“If your tenure is over, your tenure is over. The institutional members, the other members of NEC come together, sit together with the leader of the party, who is His Excellency governor, Alex Otti, because he’s the most senior political office holder in our party,
“We have to come up with a team that would help us organize congresses right from the ward level to local government state and then culminate into a national convention and that has been done, and they said they do not want to do it.
“But you see the way you see me. I’m a very peaceful woman. I don’t look like somebody who has been out there fighting. I’m not a daggers-drawn with anybody.”
On whether they have approached INEC for recognition after the court ruling, she added, “Yes, we did. We did today. We went in a bit late in the day, so I’m expecting we’ll get a response soon. You don’t go to them empty handed. You need to have certified true copy of the judgment. So that took a little bit of time to get out of the court. So we finally got that today and it was submitted.”
