Labour Party already in coalition with Nigerians, remains the best alternative to achieving a prosperous Nigeria
Fellow Nigerians and particularly, Labour Party members across the globe, it is with joy that I welcome everyone to the new year. 2025 indeed was a spectacular year filled with mixed feelings for which we give all the glory to the Almighty.
It was a year that Labour Party under my leadership surmounted, virtually all distractions by some of the party leaders which had threatened the very peaceful existence of the party. Since April 4, when the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, ruled that courts cannot interfere with the party’s internal affairs and that leadership disputes are matters for the party to resolve through their internal resolution mechanism, the Labour Party leadership has since reasserted itself.
The judgement unsettled not quite a few of our leaders who had surreptitiously funded the crisis. Some have continued to waste state resources seeking for elusive court orders and injunction, all to no avail. Some have also left too. The shackles of bondage holding the party down more than a year now is finally broken with the 31st December, 2025 incidence in Enugu.
We want to thank the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for respecting the Supreme Court judgement and has since resumed businesses with my leadership. A few days ago, the candidate of our party in Ekiti state governorship election was uploaded. Similarly, the candidate of our party in Osun state has been accorded his rights by INEC.
Preparatory to the 2027 general election, the leadership of the Labour Party had also successfully conducted our congresses across the ward, local government and state in all the states of the federation and FCT with the exception of Abia state due to a court injunction.
We cannot therefore wrap up the 2025 without mentioning that while we witnessed a few defections from the party as a result of the crisis, the leadership of the party also welcomed new members in their numbers resulting from our revalidation exercise and new membership drive.
The year 2026 however will be remarkable in so many ways being the year preceding the election year. 2026 presents an exceeding hope for Nigerians who will, from the first quarter begin the process of recruiting leadership across all strata in line with the dictates of the constitution which stipulates that elections must hold every four years.
We are not unmindful of the fact that many other political parties will be in the field to struggle for power. We in Labour Party knew where we were before the 2023 general election and how under my leadership, we were able to turn things around. It was no fluke, rather the successes recorded were as a result of dint of hard work, strategic application of reasons and structural discipline applied by my leadership. We were so focused that we refused to fall for immediate gains. We knew that we were in the power tussle to win.
We are on the march again, the processes of selecting new leaders begins first quarter of the year. Labour Party believes that it remains genuinely the only party that is capable of bringing down the poverty levels because of our socio-economic policy, well articulated which the party stands for. That is why the Labour Party is calling on Nigerians to shine their eyes and not to expect so much from any form of coalition. The only coalition Nigerians need is the coalition with the poor, the market women, civil servants, farmers, students and other proletariats. That coalition is already existing with the Labour Party.
Nigerians must distance themselves from coalition of failed politicians; men who literally destroyed Nigeria and brought it to its present comatose stage today. Nigeria should not expect so much from the coalition of looters and plunders of the nation’s treasury. It is like having an old wine in a new bottle. These characters who have been present since 1999 are still the protagonists of the coalition. We see them as politicians of convenience, not of ideology, not because they love the country or because they love the masses but because they want to continue to remain in power to loot.
A look at the trajectory of some of the dramatis personae of the coalition will shock you. While some are propelled by blind desperation to lead the nation at all cost, and by so doing, have continued to move around virtually all political parties since inception of the present dispensation, some others have been in power since the military days.
The latest entrant, unfortunately was the Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate. He is apparently not different from the rest. He is a known betrayal, a pretender that can easily go back to his vomit. In 2022/2023, he joined the Labour Party campaign train and described these his new found collaborators as irresponsible, fraudulent, rascals and incompetent. He specifically described Atiku as too old to be President of Nigeria. Today, he has found nothing wrong to be in a cohort with these men.
His later actions have proved Nigerians wrong that he is actually not the character that can lead Nigeria to navigate to its eldorado.
Someone who can, on a stroke when his personal interest is in conflict, betrays everyone who has worked with him; someone who cannot manage a micro organisation of a people, cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of managing a country like Nigeria with diverse interest.
We need men who can build our Institutions and develop them to have shock absorbers that can withstand dictatorial tendencies. We don’t need men who are self-centered and who can compromise integrity, dignity for personal ambition.
Let me conclude this new year message by pointing out that Labour Party remains the only alternative.
Sign
Barrister Julius Abure
National Chairman
Labour Party
01/01/2026
