INEC’s Acting Chair in Criminal Collusion with Julius Abure Over Fake Court Order, Labour Party alleges

By Ken Eluma Asogwa

The Labour Party has uncovered yet another brazen assault on our democracy - this time orchestrated by Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, the former Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in connivance with the former National Chairman of our party, Mr. Julius Abure.

The Nigerian people will recall that on Tuesday, 14th October 2025, Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu convened a meeting with leaders of the 18 registered political parties, during which Mr. Julius Abure was curiously invited. 

Barely twenty-four hours later, on 15th October 2025, Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu attempted to justify this reckless action by citing an alleged order from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gwagwalada, purportedly directing INEC to recognise Mr. Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

In her defence, she stated that INEC was merely obeying a court order, claiming that if the faction led by Senator Nenadi Usman presented a valid judgment in their favour, the Commission would comply accordingly.

However, our independent and painstaking investigation has revealed that no such court order exists. 

While it is true that Mr. Abure filed a suit against INEC in Suit No: CV/1914/2025, before Hon. Justice Kayode Agunloye of Court 40, FCT High Court, Gwagwalada, our formal request for a Certified True Copy, CTC, of any order purportedly recognising him as Chairman was met with a categorical confirmation from the court that no such order was ever granted.

We therefore challenge Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu to produce the so-called court order that she relied upon to accord recognition to Julius Abure. 

The truth is that INEC’s acting leadership has willfully relied on a fabricated and non-existent order to justify an illegal and politically motivated act. Although it would have still been null and void even if such order existed, especially in the face of the Supreme Court’s unambiguous judgment of 4th April 2025 which conclusively upheld Senator Nenadi Usman’s leadership of the Labour Party, it smacks of fraud, scant regard for our laws, meddlesomeness, and partisanship for Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu to have dragged INEC into this web of political criminal conspiracy to commit this judicial heist. 

This shameful episode represents a new low in the history of INEC. It exposes Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu as a clear danger to Nigeria’s democracy, and as such, we call for her immediate arrest and prosecution for complicity in the criminal forgery of a court order and for acting as an accessory after the fact in a crime against the Nigerian people.

Accordingly, we direct our supporters nationwide to begin immediate mobilisation for a peaceful occupation of INEC Headquarters until Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu is arrested and prosecuted, and until INEC fully complies with the binding Supreme Court judgment affirming the leadership of Senator Nenadi Usman.

As the incoming substantive Chairman of INEC prepares to assume office, we urge him to urgently address this grave injustice and purge the Commission of the elements of destabilisation led by Mrs. Agbamuche-Mbu and her co-conspirators.

 ... Asogwa is the Senior Special Adviser (Media) to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi Usman