On Thursday, the Court of Appeal in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, invalidated all the off-season governorship primary elections held by Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, adding a new twist to the crisis roiling the Labour Party over its ongoing leadership dispute.
The court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately recognize and publish the names of all the governorship candidates in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kog state that had been produced by the Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee during the court session, which was moved from Owerri to Abuja due to security concerns.
