Factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has warned Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, against deceiving Nigerians about his membership in the party.
Abure said the Labour Party is working fast to reorganize and strengthen its structure ahead of the 2027 elections.
Governor Otti recently claimed in an interview that he remains a member of the LP and has no intention of joining the coalition party. This comes even as his faction — including Caretaker Committee Chairman Nenadi Usman and Peter Obi — has officially aligned with the coalition.
Reacting in a statement issued Friday in Abuja, Abure said: “Our attention has been drawn to Otti’s interview where he said that he is still a member of the Labour Party. We are not going to fall for his deception again. How can he be in the Labour Party when recently he conducted the local government election in Abia State with Zenith Labour Party as his party?”
“He should not think that every Nigerian is bereft of knowledge. He formed and is funding the illegal caretaker committee that had formally joined the ADC. The icing on the cake was the Wednesday unveiling of the coalition where every member of the caretaker committee formally joined the ADC,” Abure stated.
The LP chairman added: “We are shocked that Otti is paradoxically trying to mislead members of the Labour Party to say that he is still a member of the Labour Party. In any event, we had earlier suspended him indefinitely from the party because of his anti-party activities.”
“Labour Party is on the move again. We have the best brand in Nigeria, and we are eager to engage young Nigerians who have the interest of the nation at heart,” Abure declared.
He added: “We are therefore willing to let go of everyone, no matter how high, whose interest in Nigeria is self-driven, opportunistic politicians who are not principled.”
: “Labour Party is not and cannot be in any coalition because coalitions of political parties are ideologically bereft. It is a marriage of political strange fellows whose only agenda is power-grabbing. It is selfish in nature, and no true democrat will agree to such an amalgam. Labour Party is therefore in a hurry to sanitize itself of people without character. It is on this note that I call on Dr Alex Otti to move on because he cannot be in the Labour Party and be working against the party.” Abure’s statement concluded.
