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  The battle of the various factions in the Labour Party rose to a crescendo after the Supreme Court judgement of April 4th, 2025. The judgement, which unambiguously sent parties to their house to decide their fate, has been variously misconstrued, misinterpreted, and misrepresented. The judgement has been erroneously interpreted to suit the various positions that the factions hold. While it’s common to see parties on a matter take different and often opposing stand, the position of some of these people in the factions is clearly a function of ignorance of the facts of the judgement and the electoral law guiding the relationship of INEC with political parties. Those expecting INEC to decide the leadership of the Labour Party are living in illusion and shall be disappointed at the end of the day. It is naturally ludicrous, magically incredulous, and legally ridiculous to expect INEC to tell Labour Party, we reject Abure and accept Nenadi. And this is why: 1.    INEC h...

  24 th  April, 2025 THE POSITION OF LABOUR PARTY ON THE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT The position of Labour Party after critically reviewing the supreme court judgment delivered on the 4 th  of April 2025 and state as follows: The Supreme Court contrary to speculations actually reaffirmed the National Convention of the Party held on the 27 th of March 2024 at Nnewi when it stated thus: The reason for the non-justiciability of internal disputes of a political party is simple, and that is that in the eyes of the law, a political party is a corperate entity with its constitution, rules, regulations, and guidelines which are binding on members who having joined freely have consented to be so bound (See   Abegunde  Vs. Ondo State House of Assembly & Ors. (2015) LPELR-24588 (SC). ) The internal affairs of a political party can be defined as matters, situation in which only the political party to the exclusion of others can make decisions. It means that the Constitution...