*For Fraternizing With Anti-Tinubu Coalition
The crisis rocking Labour Party (LP) appears to have reached a new high as the Julius Abure faction of the party today handed LP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 polls, Mr Peter Obi, two days, beginning today, to exit the party.
The ultimatum expressly requested Obi to formally resign his membership of the party “having formally joined the coalition party.”
Obi was among opposition political heavyweights including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; former Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi; former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and many others who formed a mega coalition to stop President Bola Tinubu from returning to Aso Villa in the 2027 general elections.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, the Abure LP, which has been accused of working for President Tinubu, said it would not join the coalition against the latter, describing the coalition members allegedly as “power mongers whose only interest was self and not the people.”
The faction warned Nigerians that the often mouthed ‘new Nigeria is Possible’ is a ruse and cannot be achieved with what it termed “the assemblage of old, recycled, desperate and frustrated politicians in the coalition.”
The faction said that all those who allegedly “mismanaged Nigeria over the years are the ones that gathered themselves in the coalition”, noting that “desperate politicians can’t birth new Nigeria.”
The statement further read: “We are aware of several nocturnal meetings between Peter Obi and some of our members, lobbying them to join him in his new party. We’re also aware that a number of them has (Sic) refused to defect with him.
“Labour Party has consistently said it is not part of the coalition and therefore, any of our members who is part of the coalition is given within 48 hours to formally resign his membership of the party.
“Labour Party is not available for people with dual agenda, people with deceptive persona. The party will not avail itself to individuals who have one leg in one Party and another leg elsewhere. People that in the morning, they will claim to be in the Labour Party and in the evening they are in coalition.
“Nearly 70 percent of Nigerian population are youths who are tired of the old order, tired of gerontocrats deciding their fate. The new Nigeria that the youths (Sic) are dreaming of, is not what can be realized from what we are seeing in the coalition.
“These people are opportunistic politicians who are only interested in relaunching themselves into circle of power, people who are desperate to continue holding on to power.
“The new Nigeria of our dream can only be realized through Labour Party and the party is willing to lead Nigerians along that trajectory.”
