•Akin Osuntokun A former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has dumped the Labour Party for the African Democratic Congress. Osuntokun, a former NAN Managing Director, confirmed this to a correspondent of the agency today in Lagos. “Yes, it is correct. I am now in ADC,” he said. When asked why [...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has upheld the exclusion of Labour Party (LP) candidates from the Area Council elections scheduled to take place on February 21 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Delivering judgment on Wednesday in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2110/2025, Justice Peter Lifu declined to order the Independent National Electoral...
•Alex Otti and Peter Obi The Labour Party has taken decisive steps to clarify its leadership direction and political future, affirming Alex Otti, Governor of Abia State, as its national leader. The announcement positions Otti —currently the party’s most prominent elected office holder — as the central rallying figure for the LP’s structures na...
•Nenadi Usman and Labour Party logo Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has affirmed the Nenadi Usman-led caretaker committee as the valid leadership of Labour Party (LP) and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise them as such. … developing story
•Peter Obi The Nenadi Usman-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) in Rivers State has officially collapsed its structure into the African Democratic Congress (ADC), with a vow to queue behind LP presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi. This was as former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, warned that ADC may become irrelevant if […]...
•Alex Otti and Peter Obi The Labour Party (LP) has affirmed Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, as its national leader and is wishing the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, well following his decision to join the coalition African Democratic Congress (ADC). The party’s National Secretary, Darlington Nwokocha, disclosed...
•Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed and Peter Obi Former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, says Peter Obi will be welcomed back to the party if he does not get the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket. Datti said this during an interview on Channels Television today, and explained that it is better fo...
•Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed Ahead of the 2027 general polls, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed has pledged to be loyal to the Labour Party on whose platform he rode to be vice presidential candidate in the 2023 polls. Baba-Ahmed, 56, was the running mate to Peter Obi, who contested for the presidency but lost to Bola […]
•Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and Governor Alex Otti Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has vowed that the Labour Party (LP) will thwart Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s attempt to return to the Senate in 2027. Otti made the remarks in response to a statement attributed to Kalu, in which the senator, speaking in Ebonyi State, […]
The Labour Party has responded to the defection of its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and some of his supporters to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing the move as a long-awaited separation that “liberates” the party. The party’s leadership, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, today, noted th...
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