{"id":173890,"date":"2025-08-13T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:20:15","slug":"by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction","title":{"rendered":"By-Election Exclude LP Face Legal Action Abure Faction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Julius Abure-led Labour Party, LP, has threatened a legal action on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, if it omits its candidates from the ballot in the August 16 scheduled bye-election.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that INEC excluded the names of LP candidates from its list on August 2 by-election, a move that sparked a protest march to the commission\u2019s Abuja headquarters last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the candidates emerged from primaries conducted by the Abure-led National Working Committee, NWC, in spite of a leadership tussle ravaging the party.<\/p>\n<p>The factional National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, in a statement on Tuesday asked INEC to publish the party\u2019s candidates\u2019 names and ensure its logo is on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Electoral Act 2022 allows any political party excluded from an election to approach the court for a remedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership of the Labour Party has advised that if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, goes ahead to conduct the August 16, 2025, bye-election without publishing the names of its candidates and ensuring that its logo appears on the ballot, it will seek the nullification of the election in line with the provision of the law,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Julius Abure-led Labour Party, LP, has threatened a legal action on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, if it omits its candidates from the ballot in the August 16 scheduled bye-election. Recall that INEC excluded the names of LP candidates from its list on August 2 by-election, a move that sparked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10161,251,254],"class_list":["post-173890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abure","tag-inec","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>By-Election Exclude LP Face Legal Action Abure Faction - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Julius Abure-led Labour Party, LP, has threatened a legal action on the Independent National Electoral Commission, I ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"By-Election Exclude LP Face Legal Action Abure Faction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Julius Abure-led Labour Party, LP, has threatened a legal action on the Independent National Electoral Commission, I ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-13T07:35:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-13T09:20:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755064342.288966.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"979\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"By-Election Exclude LP Face Legal Action Abure Faction\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-13T07:35:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-13T09:20:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\"},\"wordCount\":218,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755064342.288966.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abure\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/by-election-exclude-lp-face-legal-action-abure-faction\",\"name\":\"By-Election Exclude LP Face Legal Action Abure Faction - 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