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STATEMENT FROM THE LABOUR PARTY
To: Prof. Joash Amupitan
Chairman
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Abuja
Sir,
LETTER OF CONGRATULATION
May I personally and on behalf of the leadership and members of the Labour Party congratulate you on your well deserved appointment as the Chairman of INEC. Your appointment and elevation by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is one that most Nigerians looked forward to, having followed your trajectory as a profound scholar, a legal luminary, a cerebral teacher and impactor of knowledge, an administrator of repute and a deeply religious person.
I joined millions of Nigerians a few days ago, glued to our television on the day of your screening, while you exhibited your mastery of the task ahead while also holding the entire Senate spellbound with your intellectual prowess on how to navigate the bedeviling and intractable challenges of election management in Nigeria, albeit with ease.
I must say that you came prepared to face the challenges and to help secure our fragile democracy. Nigeria craves for an umpire who is apolitical and whose past has testimonies of love for the nation. Nigerians need a strong willed umpire who will place the nation first and who will not succumb to cheap blackmail and little tricks by the politicians who will stop at nothing in pursuit of both their ordinate and inordinate cravings. I want to say that you earned your current status and that President Tinubu’s choice and fate in you is not in anyway misplaced.
Let me at this juncture appreciate the immediate past acting Chairman of the commission for chosing to right the very many wrongs of the past leadership of INEC and for swiftly remedying the glaring infractions perpetuated against the Labour Party.
I do not want to burden you with our challenges as this letter is purely congratulatory. However, I want to use this opportunity to remind you of a pending order of the Court binding on INEC to recognize the present leadership of the Labour Party as led by my humble self, Barrister Julius Abure but which for reasons known to the immediate past INEC leadership was disregarded but for which we are grateful that the Acting Chairman has remediated substantially.
We are however appealing to you to fully comply with several orders and judgements of the courts by directing the inclusion of the Labour Party in the up coming FCT council election by uploading the names of the party candidates. As a worker in the temple of justice and one known to have always respected the rule of law, we urge you to revisit this abnormally and restore recognition to the current leadership of the Labour Party as led by my humble self. This is because, the judiciary, which you are a prominent member has spoken loudly and clearly on both the position of the law on the political party leadership and the party supremacy.
I want to sincerely congratulate you for this wonderful elevation. May God crown your efforts and make your tenure in the commission truly glorious.
Once more, Congratulations.
Truly Yours,
Barrister Julius Abure
National Chairman
Labour Party
October 24, 2025
