Labour Party caretaker chairperson Nenadi Usman has dismissed Julius Abure’s threat to expose Peter Obi, Alex Otti, and others in her faction, insisting that if he truly had evidence, he should reveal it rather than issue warnings.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Friday, May 16, Usman called Abure’s bluff.
“Well, I am challenging him to expose us. If you have anybody to expose, you don’t go and talk now, you go and expose them,” she said.
Abure, the embattled national chairman of a rival LP faction, had on Monday issued a fiery warning, saying he was ready to speak out against Obi, Otti, and others allegedly involved in party funds during the 2023 elections.
“I am waiting for them, from top to bottom, to make any other move and I will open my mouth,” he declared.
“And when I open my mouth, wherever they go to, they will be like smelly eggs, rotten eggs that nobody will ever buy.”
Usman brushed off the remarks and revealed that Abure himself was already the subject of police investigations.
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“We have a lot of things about him and that is why the people whom he did it to went to the police,” she said. “The police are investigating him and very soon you will hear about it.”
She went further to frame the party’s crisis as a symptom of deeper democratic decay.
“Generally, you would agree with me that every democracy needs to have a vibrant opposition. So when the opposition wants to become part of the ruling party, then there’s a problem. And that is where we are today,” she said.
Usman also claimed that Abure’s tenure as national chairman had expired and that the party was only acting on INEC’s directive to resolve the leadership vacuum.
“Principally, the Labour Party leadership at some point had issues with INEC because the tenure of Abure and his NWC had come to an end,” she explained.
She recalled that during a meeting of political party leaders, Abure was asked to leave the venue. “Which was why when INEC invited leaders of political parties, he attended the meeting and was told to step out with his secretary.”
Following that, Abure secured a court order compelling INEC to continue recognising him, a move Usman believes undermines internal party democracy.