Crisis in the Adamawa State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has deepened, with rival factions now openly challenging each other over the leadership of the party.

The crisis, which came to a head on Wednesday, August 5, after reports emerged that the state chairman of the party, Jonah Theman Kalpenge, had been suspended, took another turn on Thursday when executives opposed to the move rejected the suspension.

In the latest development, executives loyal to the chairman described the purported suspension as unconstitutional and of no effect.

At a meeting attended by state and local government executives in Yola, the party leaders insisted that the suspension was “drama and child’s play” and reiterated that the process violated the provisions of the party’s constitution.

The executives resolved to constitute a five-member disciplinary committee to investigate the conduct of members who participated in the “unlawful” meeting that led to the purported suspension.

The committee is chaired by Dauda Peter, with Yahuza Kabiru, Hauwa Musa, Sarah Sunday and Moses Gaji serving as members.

The committee was directed to invite the affected members—Kamalludeen Jibrilla Aliyu, Suleiman Abdulkareem, Andrew Adamu, Abubakar Aliyu and Tufanus Daniel—to appear before it at the party’s state secretariat in Yola on Saturday, August 8, 2026.

The Labour Party, which has outspoken politician Senator Ishaku Abbo as its governorship candidate for the 2027 election, has once again been thrown into internal turmoil. The current crisis mirrors the internal divisions that destabilised the party in the build-up to the 2023 general election.

Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido says he witnessed President Bola Tinubu’s telephone conversation with the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke.

DAILY POST earlier reported that the President held a phone call with the governor, who is also the candidate of the Acord Party in the August 15, 2026 gubernatorial election in the state.

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Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed Chief Thomas Ereyitomi as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Warri House of Representatives seat in the 2027 general election.

The judge on Thursday dismissed a suit brought against him by another aspirant for the constituency, Dr Ekpoto Emmanuel, challenging his nomination and submission of his name to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Emmanuel had in the suit prayed the court to nullify the emergence of Ereyitomi as the candidate of the APC for the Warri Federal Constituency.

His grouse against Ereyitomi’s nomination by APC was that he was a member of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, at the time he stood for the May 16, 2026 primary election that produced him.

The plaintiff urged the court to disqualify Ereyitomi who is the 3rd defendant in the suit and declare him the lawful winner of the primary election, having scored second highest votes in the primary poll.

However, in his judgment, Justice Umar agreed with Ereyitomi, APC and INEC that the case of the plaintiff was membership of a political party.

The judge held that membership of political party is an internal affairs of the APC and cannot be looked into by any law court.

He also held that once the National Working Committee of a political party sets up a screening committee, and all aspirants screened and cleared and proceeded to sell expression of interest and nomination forms to candidates, it is assumed that the issue of membership of the party by the cleared aspirant can no longer be an issue as in the present case.

The judge stated, “What is more, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the custodian of party documents including membership register, claimed that it was not aware of dual party membership raised against the third defendant (Thomas).

“On his part, the third defendant in his counter-affidavit made it clear that he registered at Ogidigben Ward of Warri and displayed his temporary membership card issued to him by the leaders at the ward, a claim that was not challenged by the plaintiff.

“From the totality of the claims and reliefs sought by the plaintiff it is crystal clear that his case revolves around party membership which in my view and in view of plethora of decisions of the Supreme Court, fall within the internal affairs of a political party, and it is therefore outside the purview of this court to go into.

“I therefore do not hesitate to hold the view that the case of the plaintiff falls squarely in the internal affairs of the APC.”

Consequently, Justice Umar held that the case of the plaintiff was lacking in merit, and as a result, dismissed it.