Labour Party Faction Rejects Peter Obi, Alex Otti’s NEC Meeting As Illegal

A faction of the Labour Party (LP) has condemned a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting led by Peter Obi, the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, and Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State.

According to Umar Farouk Ibrahim, the National Secretary of the party, the meeting was illegal, and Obi and Otti are allegedly attempting to take over the party’s structure.

Ibrahim made this statement after a high-level LP delegation, led by Governor Otti, visited the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. The visit was to discuss key developments within the party, during which Otti presented a Certified True Copy of a Supreme Court ruling regarding the party’s leadership.

In response, Ibrahim accused Obi and Otti of trying to hijack the leadership of the Labour Party. He stated, “The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to an illegal NEC meeting convened by Dr. Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor, and Peter Obi, Labour Party’s former presidential candidate wherein they have continued to live in an unhealthy paradise and deluding themselves.”

Ibrahim further explained, “At the end of their illegal meeting in Abuja today, Mr. Peter Obi led other party outlaws to the Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in an attempt to pressure the electoral commission to take illegal action against our party leadership.” He also raised doubts over the legitimacy of their actions, questioning, “If really the Supreme Court decision is in their favour, why are they rushing to INEC to be putting undue influence on the Commission to do the wrong thing?”

The statement also highlighted Obi and Otti’s intentions to offer Barrister Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, a new position as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in what was perceived as an attempt to appease him. However, Ibrahim countered, “Abure didn’t make himself the National Chairman, therefore it is not about Abure but about what the structures have said. It is about the supremacy of the organs of the party and it is about doing things right.”

The Labour Party faction strongly condemned the meeting and urged all members and the public to disregard its outcome.
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