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The Labour Party crisis intensified as Senator Nenadi Usman’s faction submitted a new interim leadership list to INEC.

The power tussle inside the Labour Party has taken another sharp turn after the faction led by Senator Nenadi Usman formally presented a new 34-member interim leadership list to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The document, sent to INEC Chairman Prof. Joash Amupitan, was acknowledged by the commission on Friday, November 28, 2025. Usman signed the list as the Interim National Chairman, while Darlington Nwokocha appended his signature as Interim National Secretary.

In the accompanying letter, the group said their authority came from the Labour Party constitution and a National Executive Council (NEC) resolution passed on July 18, 2025. 

According to them, the NEC granted the mandate to reconstitute the party’s national leadership while internal issues were being addressed.

Usman noted that the names submitted reflected the “full body of the Interim National Working Committee,” urging INEC to recognise the list as the party’s legitimate leadership. 

She added that the NEC resolution empowering the interim structure had been previously communicated to INEC and acknowledged on July 21, 2025.

The faction also maintained that the fresh list overrides the earlier abridged one they submitted in August, as well as the list recently forwarded by the rival group led by Julius Abure.

This development comes barely 24 hours after Abure held his own NEC meeting one attended by INEC officials and former vice-presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed where he reaffirmed his claim as the party’s national chairman.

Meanwhile, Usman and Nwokocha’s camp appears to have strong backing from several influential voices within the party, including Abia State Governor Alex Otti and former presidential candidate Peter Obi.

The updated interim list features key positions such as Deputy National Chairman (TUC) Mohammed Misau, Deputy National Chairman (Female) Mrs. Nike Oriola, and Deputy National Chairman (NLC) Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, among others.

With two rival factions sending competing leadership lists to INEC, the Labour Party’s leadership crisis seems far from resolution  and the electoral body may once again find itself at the centre of the dispute.