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LP Crisis: Nenadi Usman Dares Abure To Expose Obi, Otti
The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) intensified on Friday as Nenadi Usman, chairperson of the party’s caretaker committee, dared factional chairman Julius Abure to make good on his threat to expose top party figures, including former presidential candidate Peter Obi and Abia State Governor Alex Otti.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, Usman dismissed Abure’s recent threats as empty and challenged him to reveal any alleged wrongdoing by party members instead of issuing veiled threats.
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Earlier in the week, Abure had accused Obi, Otti, and other key figures in the party of hypocrisy over the handling of funds during the 2023 general elections. He warned of a looming exposé that would tarnish their reputations.
“I am waiting for them—from top to bottom—to make any other move and I will open my mouth,” Abure said. “And when I open my mouth, wherever they go, they will be like smelly eggs, rotten eggs that nobody will ever buy.”
In response, Usman said the LP had already compiled evidence of misconduct by Abure, some of which is currently under police investigation.
“Well, I am challenging him to expose us. If you have anybody to expose, you don’t go and talk now, you go and expose them,” Usman retorted.
“We have a lot of things about him, and that is why the people whom he did it to went to the police. The police are investigating him and very soon you will hear about it.”
Usman lamented the internal strife, calling it a threat to the health of Nigeria’s democratic system.
“Generally, you would agree with me that every democracy needs to have a vibrant opposition,” she said. “So when the opposition wants to become part of the ruling party, then there’s a problem. And that is where we are today.”
She argued that Abure’s tenure as LP national chairman had expired and that the party was simply following directives from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to fill the leadership vacuum.
“Principally, the Labour Party leadership at some point had issues with INEC because the tenure of Abure and his NWC had come to an end,” she said. “Which was why when INEC invited leaders of political parties, he attended the meeting and was told to step out with his secretary.”
Following his removal, Abure secured an initial court order recognizing his leadership. However, Usman said the matter went up to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the lower courts lacked jurisdiction to entertain the case.
“We went to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court looked at the issue critically and said the two lower courts didn’t have any jurisdiction,” she explained.
“They said his tenure was over, he is not the chairman, he’s no longer the chairman of the Labour Party.”
She quoted Justice Inyang Okoro’s ruling, which advised political leaders to leave office honorably when their tenure expires.
Despite the judgment, Abure’s name remains listed as LP chairman on INEC’s website—an outcome Usman attributed to a court injunction, not a democratic process.
According to Usman, the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), acting on INEC’s recommendation, established a caretaker committee to conduct congresses and elect new leaders at all levels.
She noted that Abure is welcome to contest again but criticized him for attempting to maintain his position through legal maneuvers instead of party elections.
“Even Julius Abure, if he still wants to remain chairman, he could go through the election,” Usman said. “But he doesn’t want to go through election.
“His NWC doesn’t want to go through election. They just want to be using the courts to remain as leaders. I think that’s not good for opposition.”
Edo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua, has accused the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, of showing “symptoms of desperation” over his promise to restore fuel subsidy if elected president in 2027.
Afegbua made the remarks during an interview while reacting to Atiku’s position on the removal of petrol subsidy and the former vice president’s renewed call for government intervention in fuel pricing.
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According to him, Atiku, Peter Obi and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had all campaigned ahead of the 2023 presidential election on the need to remove fuel subsidy.
“Now, talking about fuel subsidy, I think the ADC candidate is showing symptoms of desperation,” Afegbua said.
He argued that Tinubu, after winning the 2023 election, implemented the removal of the petrol subsidy, adding that anyone seeking its return should be properly scrutinised because, in his view, the previous subsidy regime created opportunities for fraud and contributed to the decline of Nigeria’s refineries.
“Anybody who is planning to bring back subsidy, that person should be examined properly, because that person is trying to bring back subsidy scammers, saboteurs, and buccaneers who held down Nigeria for so long using subsidy and crippled our refineries,” he said.
Afegbua also alleged that the ADC was experiencing financial difficulties and suggested that this was influencing its campaign messaging.
“The ADC, as it were today, is undergoing some financial strain. So they are looking for every opportunity to rake in money and all of that,” he said.
The Edo commissioner, however, acknowledged that Nigerians were still facing the effects of high fuel and transportation costs, pointing to ongoing government interventions, including the planned commissioning of 50 CNG buses in Edo State.
He said the buses, expected to be commissioned on October 15, would be distributed across the three senatorial districts and would provide free transportation for passengers.
Recall that Atiku had on August 20, 2026, pledged to restore petrol subsidy if elected president in the 2027 election.
Speaking during a Facebook Live session, the ADC candidate questioned how the resources previously spent on subsidy had been utilised following its removal.
“I initially did not oppose the removal of the fuel subsidy. But now that it has been removed, where is the money? Where has the subsidy money gone?” Atiku asked.
He subsequently said: “If I win the presidential election, I will restore the subsidy. And anyone who stole Nigeria’s subsidy funds must return the money.”
On August 25, Atiku further reaffirmed that his position had not changed, saying, “When I said I would return to subsidy, I will!”
He later clarified that the proposed intervention would be targeted and focused on supporting domestic production rather than simply returning to the former import-subsidy model.
The Vice Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi, has stated clear terms and conditions on which he will quit the party, the presidential race and back its rival, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 elections.
The former Governor of Rivers State challenged Tinubu to bring the price of petrol down to ₦600 per litre and see him withdraw from the ADC ticket and campaign for the President in the 2027 election.
Amaechi made the challenge while reacting to Tinubu’s Independence Day address and the President’s declaration that Nigeria had entered an “age of prosperity” during an interview on Friday with Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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Questioning the believability of Tinubu’s claim, Amaechi said Nigerians should assess whether the economic reforms had translated into lower prices and improved living conditions.
“It is about believability; who do you believe? Go to the 2005 Presidential speech; it is the same: we have turned the page, and we are about to start enjoyment,” Amaechi said.
“Have you asked one of your staff who goes by transport, how much it costs from Yanya to Abuja? Has anything come down?
“Has any price come down, has anything changed?” he asked.
Using the price of petrol as a test of the government’s economic claims, Amaechi said he would personally visit a filling station to establish whether the product had fallen to ₦600 per litre.
“I will go tomorrow morning to the petrol station to buy fuel, I will go myself, if fuel has come down to 600, I will campaign for President Tinubu,” Amaechi said.
The former Minister for Transport, under late President Muhammadu Buhari also challenged those who doubted his pledge to accompany him with a camera, saying he would withdraw from the ticket he is contesting alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and support Tinubu if petrol had fallen to the stated price.
“If you doubt me, come with your camera to my house, and I will go to the filling station and buy fuel, and I, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi will withdraw as a vice presidential candidate of Atiku and campaign for President Tinubu, if it has come down,” he declared.
The Lagos State governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Funso Doherty, has promised to make education, books and examination fees free across the state within his first 100 days in office if elected governor in 2027.
Doherty made the pledge on Thursday during a special town hall meeting hosted by The Platform, a thought leadership initiative of The Covenant Nation, in Lagos.
Speaking on his plans for his first 100 days in office, the governorship candidate said his administration would make education entirely free, including the provision of books and payment of examination fees.
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“We will also provide one nutritious meal for every kid in public school. We will also provide a programme by which kids who are in public schools are transported free to school if they need it,” Doherty said.
He explained that the measures were aimed at ensuring that no child is denied access to education.
“Because the children, given our demographics, are the hope of the future and will be the time bomb of the future,” he said.
Doherty also promised what he described as truly free healthcare, with particular attention to maternal and child healthcare.
On housing, the NDC candidate said his administration would adopt a large-scale approach to addressing the housing deficit in Lagos, rather than delivering only a few hundred housing units.
“Our commitment is to deliver about 150,000 units in our first term because a large part of the problem with housing is the fact that supply has not kept up with the demand,” he said.
The pledges form part of Doherty’s proposed agenda ahead of the 2027 Lagos State governorship election.
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