Tag: Labour Party

Labour Party discussing coalition with NNPP, SDP – Okupe

Aminu Imam

The Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate’, Doyin Okupe, has said the party is discussing with some political parties on forming a coalition for the 2023 elections. Okupe, who announced on Friday that he would be ‘standing in’ as running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, stated this during an interview on a television programme yesterday. According to him, the party is working towards creating the “largest political coalition” in the country to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). He said, “Our idea and reasoning…

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2023: Ohanaeze declares support for Peter Obi, Labour Party

Aminu Imam

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has declared support for the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, for president come 2023. It stated this in an issued press statement commending Nigerians, especially the youths on their recent efforts to end voters’ apathy and take back Nigeria in 2023. The group however urged Igbo leadership to openly endorse the Obi’s Labour Party in 2023, as he is the newest political tsunami sweeping across the country. The statement was signed by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro and made available to newsmen in Abakaliki. The…

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2023: Labour Party working towards merging with NNPP – Party Chieftain

Aminu Imam

There are plans to bring together the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to help strengthen the national spread and to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC). The Spokesman, National Consultative Forum (NCF) and Labour Party, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, disclosed this in a recent interview. According to Tanko, merging the two parties was an idea they have already seen on the ground, and they felt that the Labour Party’s flag bearer, Peter Obi, who is very much grounded in the Southern part of the country…

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2023: NLC endorses Peter Obi as Labour Party flag bearer

Aminu Imam

…Disowns Okafor The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday disowned Calistus Okafor’s faction of the Labour Party and endorsed the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi. The NLC said Obi remains the only presidential standard-bearer of the party in the 2023 general elections. The factional presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Jude Ezenwafor was said to have withdrawn from the contest.Ezenwafor had earlier received an ultimatum from the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, led by Okwu Nnabuike, to withdraw from the contest. However, NLC national president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, in…

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Labour Party: Nat. Sec. disowns Okafor, says no faction

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Secretary of Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim has disowned the self acclaimed factional Chairman of the party one Calistus Okafo who also falsely presented one Mr. Jude Ezewanfo as a factional presidential candidate, asserting that there is no faction in the party. Speaking in a Radio Programme monitored in Kaduna by Voice of Liberty, Ibrahim said Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi remains the authentic presidential candidate of the party, dully elected at a convention organized by the leadership of Mr Julius Abure as national chairman,…

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Peter Obi emerges Labour Party presidential candidate

Aminu Imam

…As Utomi, others step down Former Governor of Anambra State and 2019 vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Peter Obi, yesterday, emerged as presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), after Prof. Pat Utomi, Joseph Faduri, and Mrs. Olubusola Emmanuel Tella stepped down for him. Declaring Peter Obi as the winner of the Presidential primaries during the National Convention of the party held in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Returning Officer, Usman Aliyu Abdullahi, said Peter Obi polled 97 votes out of the 98 total votes cast.…

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