Nigeria, March 25 -- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to validate Labour Party's scheduled national convention in Abia State.

It is a statutory requirement for a political party's national convention to be supervised by the electoral commission.

In a letter to the INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmood, the NLC through its lawyer, Marshal Abubakar, said the convention scheduled for 27 March is illegal.

The NLC, in a separate letter to LP's national legal adviser, Kehinde Edun, threatened that contempt proceedings would be instituted against the party should it go ahead with the convention in disobedience to pending legal disputes.

Julius Abure, the LP national chairman, has be...