Bye-election: LP on the ballot, as party tasks members to disregard Obi’s anti party posture

The leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has directed its party members to cast their votes for its candidates in the bye-election of Saturday, August 16th while discountenancing the directive of its former Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that they vote for the candidate of another party. 

In a Press Statement, Barrister Julius Abure, the LP National Chairman of the LP, descibed Obi’s directive as misleading, mischievous and delusional.

The party called on all its “faithful party members to ignore this malicious directive and go ahead with casting of their votes for the Labour Party and their candidates.

“It is unfortunate that Obi has turned himself to an irony and a paradox in the Nigeria political space. He is now reputed to have elevated subterfuge in the game of politics and has of late been crying  wolf where there is none.

“He has turned himself  into ‘Uber’ politician, not willing to take a position and stand by his decision. He has now booked a place for himself in the Guinness book of records as a person affiliated to many political parties pari pasu, all in his desperation to preside over Nigeria.”

Abure reminded Nigerians “that it was Peter Obi that created the crisis in the Labour Party which he is now citing as a reason why people should not vote for the party.  Peter Obi and Alex Otti the Governor of Abia State hosted the ill-fated and illegal expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, September 4, 2024. 

“He has also co-funded the crisis all these while and went as far as leading a protest match to INEC headquarters against his own party.

“His desperation to control the soul of the party has made him go haywire.

A man that received so much goodwill from the party leadership but turned around to pay them with evil. This is why we have maintained that Peter Obi lacks the  competence, character and capacity to actualise the vision of a new Nigeria.”

Going further, Abure stressed: “What Obi does not know is that Labour Party is on the ballot and our candidates are contesting the election in spite of all his efforts to strangulate the Labour Party. The party unknown to him has done everything within the law to ensure that our candidates participate in the bye-election and of course in all other future election.”