Senator Nenadi Usman, the Chairman, Labour Party National Caretaker Committee (LP-NCC), has disclosed that for the quick intervention of the leaders of the party at the September 4 Stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) might have de-registered the party.
Senator Usman disclosed this to journalists after the inaugural meeting of the committee in Abuja, on Thursday.
The caretaker chairman who promised to operate an open door policy and carry all members along said, “On September 4 at Umuahia, the capital of Abia state, no team, group or divide of our party’s various episodes of conflict was vanquished. Everyone won. Therefore, no group or divide should feel any sense of shame or defeat.
“We won together as one political family by the reality of the law. We escaped together the sword of INEC which would have otherwise taken our beloved party out of its books for having no legally acceptable leadership that meets the requirements of our country’s Electoral Act.
“The legacy I desire to be remembered for is that I met a Labour Party in relative conflict and disunity but left it a united, formidable and indomitable elections winning party nationwide.”
She also called on those who are aggrieved to shelve their sword and join hands with her committee, saying “Come forward and let us reason together on my committee’s supreme mandate. This is the mandate to deliver to our party, in about three months, exemplary unifying state congresses nationwide.
“This will climax in a transparent all-inclusive national convention which will produce the next substantive NEC and NWC of our party, and subsequently the next leadership of our great country.”
She said the situation in the party, “could have left the commission with no alternative but to deregister our party from their portals and excluded us from all elections. That course of action was successfully averted on September 4 at Umuahia.”
On his part, the acting Chairman NLC Political Commission, Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku, called on members to shelve their differences and join hands with the committee to move the party forward.