George Moghalu Not LP’s Authentic Governorship Candidate – Aspirant Nwosu

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

One of the two aspirants that initially  purchased the expression of Interest and nomination forms of the Labour Party LP for the November, 8, 2025, off-circle Anambra State Gubernatorial contest, Chief John Nwosu, has insisted that his rival, George Moghalu, is not the authentic candidate of the party.

The Source reports that Nwosu, in the wake  of the April, 4, 2025, Supreme Court ruling that sacked the Julius Abure-National Working Committee, NWC, had  withdrawn from the April 5 Abure-led NWC supervised primaries.

Nwosu had cited the Supreme Court Judgment as a major reason for pulling out.

However, his withdrawal left the field open for his co- aspirant, Moghalu, to emerge from the contentious primaries.

Instructively, Nwosu, who participated in the primaries organized by the Senator Esther Nenadi Usman-led Interim National leadership on April 10, 2025 and lost to a serving member of the Anambra State House of  Assembly, Hon Jude Umennajiego, said the primaries that threw up Noghalu was conducted by an illegal national leadership of the LP.

At a  media briefing on Tuesday, Nwosu noted that with the April 10 primaries conducted by the LP Interim National Leadership which produced Hon Umennajiego as a place-holding LP gubernatorial flag bearer, the fate of Moghalu has been sealed

According to Nwosu, since the Supreme Court has sacked the Abure led NWC, any actions and activities taken by it, including the April 5 primaries and its outcome have  been nullified.

“The Supreme Court ruling of 4th April, 2025, was definitive. We know who the leaders of LP are. It is now up to INEC to do the needful for the process to continue.

“The primaries of 5th April is null and void, and the primaries of 10th April should be upheld, except, of course, that the issue of a place holder is extraneous to the established process.

“I am a firm believer in due process and rule of law. So, I remain in the race for the candidacy of the Labour Party.

“In the fullness of time, there will be clarity, and vindication. My appeal is before the party. Once the Easter holidays are over, they will, indeed, make a pronouncement”, Nwosu stated.

But much as he is optimistic that the impasse surrounding the party’s candidate, will be amicably resolved, Nwosu, however, did not rule out the possibility of seeking legal options to stake his claim .

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, has informed that its legal team is presently studying the Supreme court’s judgment with a view to taking a decision on who to recognize as the authentic leadership of of the LP.

On the strength of the rulings of the Courts, the electoral umpire currently has the Abure-led leadership on its portal as the authentic NWC.

However, the Nation’s apex court was definitive in its nullification of the two previous Court verdicts affirming the Abure leadership.

According to the Supreme court, the tenure of Abure’s NWC had long expired before the controversial Nnewi Convention at which Abure and his NWC were purportedly re-elected for a second term in office.