Eshiorameh Sebastian
A major internal rebellion has shaken the Labour Party (LP) as its Board of Trustees (BOT) and key members of the National Executive Council (NEC) have forcefully dissolved the party’s interim National Working Committee (iNWC), plunging the organization into a fresh crisis.
The faction announced the immediate expiration and dismissal of the interim committee led by Senator Nenadi Esther Usman and Senator Darlington Nwaokocha.
The action, taken on December 2, 2025, is set to ignite a new power struggle within the already divided party.
The BOT, in a sharply critical notice, accused the Usman-led leadership of “woeful failure” to execute its core mandate.
This mandate included organising critical nationwide congresses and a national convention to establish a substantive leadership, tasks left uncompleted more than 400 days after the committee’s inauguration in September 2024.
The notice, signed by BOT Chairman Comrade S.O.Z. Ejiofor and Secretary Comrade Salisu Mohammed, stated that the interim committee had first missed its original 90-day deadline. Despite being granted a 90-day extension in July 2025, it again failed to make meaningful progress before a final October 17, 2025, deadline.
Citing severe damage to the party, the BOT blamed the dissolved committee’s “incompetence” for causing “nationwide desertion” by members, a collapse of internal confidence, and crippling setbacks ahead of the 2027 general elections. It warned that the party was “drifting dangerously off course.”
The BOT has ordered Senator Usman, Senator Nwaokocha, and all iNWC members to immediately cease all activities conducted in the Labour Party’s name and to hand over all party documents and properties to the BOT Secretary.
The statement concluded that the statutory NEC would convene shortly to reconstitute a new National Working Committee in accordance with the party’s constitution and the Electoral Act 2022.
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