•Governor Alex Otti of Abia State Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has denied rumours suggesting he is planning to defect from the Labour Party to either the All Progressives Congress or the proposed opposition coalition party ahead of the 2027 elections. Speaking at a dinner in Umuahia yesterday to mark the start of the 2025 […]
•Rhodes-Vivour and Tinubu Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has criticised the administration of President Bola Tinubu, describing it as “a failure” and blaming it for what he called the worst cost-of-living crisis Nigeria has seen in four decades. Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Lagos State during the 2023 elections, made the ...
•Ojora summons the chiefs to his palace yesterday for interrogation The Ojora of Ijora and Iganmu Kingdom, Oba AbdulFatai Oyegbemi, has dethroned six chiefs for attending the campaign flag-off of the Labour Party at the Apapa area of Lagos State. The monarch stated that the chiefs had attended the political event without his consent [&h...
•Youths protesting killings in Benue The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have condemned the brutal attack on Yelewata community in Benue State on Friday which claimed several lives and left hundreds displaced. The opposition parties in separate statements released yesterday want President Bola Tinubu to take a decisive...
•Nenadi Usman The Labour Party has condemned the mass killings in Benue State and called for an urgent deployment of security forces to vulnerable communities across Nigeria’s North Central region. Describing the attacks as “a fresh wave of senseless killings,” the party’s National Caretaker Committee, led by Senator Nenadi Usman, demanded a f...
•Ifeoma Okaro and George Moghalu The Labour Party’s governorship candidate, George Moghalu, has unveiled his running mate, Ifeoma Okaro, as Anambra State prepares for the governorship election come November 8, 2025. While presenting her to the local governments, ward chairmen and secretaries of the party in Awka, yesterday, Moghalu expressed c...
•Abure, Otti and Obi Former National Treasurer of the Labour Party (LP), Ms. Oluchi Oparah, has enjoined the factional National Chairman of the party, Barr. Julius Abure and “his cohorts” to stop blaming the party’s 2023 Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, for their political troubles. In an open letter [&...
•Peter Obi and Tinubu The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Tinubu and acolytes in his administration as well as the All Progressives Congress (APC) of orchestrating and bankrolling the crisis in the LP for personal political gains and to ensure state [&hell...
•Nenadi Usman Labour Party (LP) has made a passionate appeal to opposition politicians across the country to set aside personal ambition, greed and internal rivalries, and unite to offer Nigerians a credible alternative to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking at the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Global Award and Dinner in A...
The leadership crisis in the Labour Party (LP) has further deepened as the National Caretaker Committee (NCC), headed by former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman, has approached a Federal High Court in Zamfara State seeking to restrain the National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure, from parading himself as leader of the Labour Party. [&h...

