At the New York primary on September 12, allies of Lenora Fulani recruited thousands of candidates to run for Independence Party county committees in each borough of New York city. It appears that enough of them were elected, so that Fulani forces will control the Manhatten, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island committees. Earlier this year, the anti-Fulani statewide party leadership dissolved the Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx county committees. However, the state leadership cannot dissolve county organizations if they are “properly constituted” (meaning they elected precinct committeemen in a majority of precincts at a primary election). Therefore, all of these county (borough) organizations will be revived, except for the Bronx one.

Fulani allies are still far from having a majority of the state committee, however.