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2023: Fresh Crisis Looms In Labour Party As State Chairmen Predicts Doom For Peter Obi

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Barely 48 hours before the presidential election, a crisis seems to be looming in the camp of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.

Naija News gathered that the party’s chairmen in all the 36 states of the federation have come out to predict doom for Obi ahead of Saturday’s polls.

According to them, Obi can not win at polls on Saturday because he has sidelined all state chairmen and refused to mobilise for campaign activities.

They also claimed that Obi has no respect for the executives of the party and has neglected them to work with his cronies.

The Gombe State Labour Party chairman and co-ordinating chairman for the 36 States, Sani Abdulsalam, made the disclosure to pressmen in Abuja.

Abdulsalam was said to be in the company of the national vice chairman (North East), Mohammed Alkali and the Yobe State chairman, Ibrahim Bukar, amongst others.

He said Obi’s act of neglect has tendencies to affect the party’s performance at the polls on Saturday, noting that he choose to work with cronies and support groups, saying he doesn’t trust the state chairmen to deliver.

Abdulsalam submitted that “I speak on behalf of 36 state Chairmen of our party in my capacity as the Coordinating Chairman.

“We have never been respected by the party leadership and also our presidential candidate has no respect for our party executives at state levels because Peter Obi deliberately mismanaged our goodwill with the imposition of his members and other support groups that decamped with him in May 2022 to our party.

“Of note, Wednesday, February 22, 2023, was the meeting we had with the National Chairman in the party head office where a discussion was held about the logistics support for state chapters and National officers towards effective Mobilisation of our members for the presidential and National Assembly election on Saturday, February 25, 2023.

“To our surprise, the National Chairman said the Presidential candidate has no confidence in all the 36 state chapters’ leadership but would rather choose to work with their cronies and support group that came with him.

“The greatest shock from the National Chairman was that money for agents will not be sent to any State Chairman or National officers except those three NWC members including a woman and that all state Chairmen and 19 other members already picked by Mr Peter Obi himself will be given monies meant for party agents and an alert will be received by 10 pm tonight Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

“As of now, no alert has been received by any State Chairmen and information reaching us confirmed that money was paid based on ethnic and religious consideration because only persons of a particular ethnic group currently run the campaign of Mr Peter Obi in cohort with the National Chairman, has polluted the party.

“As members of the Labour Party National Executive and National Working Committee, it is our considered opinion and informed conclusion that Peter Obi cannot win this election since all party executives have been sidelined. He is not ready and is grossly ill-prepared for the Presidential race.”

However, all efforts by Naija News to reach out to the Labour Party’s national chairman to react to the allegation proved abortive as he wasn’t picking up his phone calls and didn’t respond to messages sent to him at the time of filling the report.