Labour Party, NNPP Alliance Talks Dead – Okupe, Umeh

Alliance talks between Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP died almost four weeks ago senior party officials, Doyin Okupe and Senator Victor Umeh said on Tuesday.

Umeh who is the party’s Senatorial candidate for Anambra Central spoke as the Director-General of the Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe described the alliance talks as dead and buried. He said that the negotiations collapsed almost four weeks ago.

Both men who spoke in separate interviews on Channels Television, however, chided the NNPP for sustaining the talk on a possible alliance with the hope of benefiting from the momentum going for Obi across the country.

Speaking in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Umeh faulted the presidential candidate of NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, for giving the impression that the talks between both parties were still in progress.

Umeh, who disclosed that the Labour Party was no longer interested in “every other discussion” with the NNPP, said:  “We are surprised at the recent media blaze by the members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to continuously suggest that they were locked in a negotiation with the Labour Party to have a partnership or arrangement where the two parties will work together in 2023.

“We are surprised to continuously see this, we had this discussion precisely on June 15, more than three weeks ago. What necessitated the meeting was that the NNPP and LP working together will give a better opportunity for the presidential election to be won. And the two parties set up two teams.

“Myself, Julius Aboreh, the Labour Party chairman who led our team; Doyin Okupe went to that discussion on behalf of the Labour Party; while the NNPP put forward Buba Galadima, Abdullahi Baffa, former executive secretary of TETFUND, and Ladipo Johnson.

“It was a three-man team; we met for long hours, adjourned and we came back. When it became obvious that it had become a dialogue between a deaf and dumb person, we called off the negotiation.

Umeh’s assertions that the talk between Labour and NNPP were dead and buried were echoed by Okupe in a different television interview also on Tuesday night.

“The alliance talks btw LP & NNPP is dead. It died since I asked the NNPP representatives if it was fair for next president to come from same region after president of Northern extraction,” Okupe said.

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