The Labour Party has described its 2023 presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi as a known betrayal, and pretender who can easily go back to his vomit.
Julius Abure, the Party’s National Chairman, who made this known in his New Year’s Message to the party’s followers on Thursday, narrated that in 2022/2023 when Obi joined the Labour Party campaign train, he described these his new found collaborators as irresponsible, fraudulent, rascals and incompetent.
Barr. Abure alleged that Obi specifically described Atiku Abubakar as too old to be President of Nigeria.
He said today, Obi has found nothing wrong to be in a cohort with these men. Noting that his later actions have proved Nigerians wrong that he is actually not the character that can lead Nigeria to navigate to its eldorado.
Recall that Obi announced his defection from Labour Party to African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Wednesday at an event in Enugu State, in the interest of national unity.
However, Abure said someone who can, on a stroke when his personal interest is in conflict, betrays everyone who has worked with him; someone who cannot manage a micro organisation of a people, cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of managing a country like Nigeria with diverse interest.
According to him, the country needs men who can build its Institutions and develop them to have shock absorbers that can withstand dictatorial tendencies, and not men who are self-centered and who can compromise integrity, dignity for personal ambition.
Speaking on coalition, the party Chairman said the only coalition Nigerians need is the coalition with the poor, the market women, civil servants, farmers, students and other proletariats. Noting that that coalition is already existing with the Labour Party.
“Nigerians must distance themselves from coalition of failed politicians; men who literally destroyed Nigeria and brought it to its present comatose stage today.
Nigeria should not expect so much from the coalition of looters and plunders of the nation’s treasury. It is like having an old wine in a new bottle.
“These characters who have been present since 1999 are still the protagonists of the coalition. We see them as politicians of convenience, not of ideology, not because they love the country or because they love the masses but because they want to continue to remain in power to loot.
“A look at the trajectory of some of the dramatis personae of the coalition will shock you. While some are propelled by blind desperation to lead the nation at all cost, and by so doing, have continued to move around virtually all political parties since inception of the present dispensation, some others have been in power since the military days,” he added.
Abure said the year 2025 was a year that Labour Party under his leadership surmounted, virtually all distractions by some of the party leaders which had threatened the very peaceful existence of the party.
He stated that since April 4, when the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, ruled that courts cannot interfere with the party’s internal affairs and that leadership disputes are matters for the party to resolve through their internal resolution mechanism, the Labour Party leadership has since reasserted itself.
The Chairman noted that the judgement unsettled not quite a few of its leaders who had surreptitiously funded the crisis. Saying that while some have continued to waste state resources seeking for elusive court orders and injunction, all to no avail, some have left the party.
Nevertheless, he said the shackles of bondage holding the party down more than a year now is finally broken with the 31st December, 2025 incidence in Enugu. Therefore, thanked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for respecting the Supreme Court judgement.
Disclosing that few days ago, the candidate of the party in Ekiti state governorship election was uploaded, while the candidate of the party in Osun state has been accorded his rights by INEC.
Preparatory to the 2027 general election, he said the leadership of the Labour Party had also successfully conducted its congresses across the ward, local government and state in all the states of the federation and FCT with the exception of Abia state due to a court injunction.
Abure said the Labour Party believes that it remains genuinely the only party that is capable of bringing down the poverty levels because of its socio-economic policy, well-articulated which the party stands for.
