The Labour Party, LP, 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has dismissed claims of dumping the party. Obi said he’s still a member and will never be involved in an anti-party. He spoke while addressing Nigerians on X Space hosted by Parallel Facts on Friday. “I am still a member of the Labour Party and I […]
LP crisis: ‘Unite party or leave’— Ex-presidential aspirant dares Peter Obi
Former presidential aspirant of the Labour Party, LP, Faduri Oluwadare Joseph, has challenged the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to vacate the party if he can’t unite members. Two factional groups, respectively led by Julius Abure and Apapa Lamidi, had been claiming supremacy over the national chairmanship. Also, the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has […]
2027 is about Peter Obi, not LP – Kenneth Okonkwo
Nollywood actor and former spokesperson of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo has said the crisis rocking the party would not affect Peter Obi if he decides to run for the presidency again in 2027. He explained that politics is about the candidate and not the political party. Speaking in a recent interview […]
Six LP members of Enugu assembly defect to PDP
Anambra: APGA knocks LP’s Ozigbo over comment on Gov Soludo’s performance
The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has come hard on Labour Party, LP, chieftain, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, for scoring Governor Charles Soludo low in his past two years as governor of Anambra State. Ozigbo had, while speaking with journalists over the weekend, said he was unimpressed with Soludo’s performance and had decided to contest the […]
Abure: Don’t validate LP national convention, it’s illegal – NLC writes INEC
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against validating the Labour Party, LP, National Convention scheduled for March 27, 2024. NLC issued the caution in a letter addressed to the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu. In the letter by the NLC’s solicitors, Falana and Falana’s Chambers, dated March 22, […]
No convention elected Abure LP National Chairman – Okafor
A former deputy national chairman of the Labour Party, Callistus Okafor, has stated that the continued occupation of the national chairmanship seat of the party by Mr Julius Abure is illegal as no convention elected him. He berated the planned national convention by the Abure-led National Working Committee of the party, insisting that he must […]
LP petitions SGF over vandalisation of national headquarters by NLC
In the petition, the party said the action of the NLC was a clear violation of the 1999 Constitution, the Electoral Act, the Trade Union Act and other relevant laws. The post LP petitions SGF over vandalisation of national headquarters by NLC appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria. Powered by WPeMatico
NLC pickets LP secretariat in Edo
In line with the directives of the national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Edo State Council of the Union has picketed the State Secretariat of the Labour Party, LP. DAILY POST reports that the national leadership of the union had on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 ordered the picketing of all State secretariats […]