LP Faces Reverse Fortunes, Bleak Future as Obi, Loyalists Set To Exit It

By Akinjide Aina, Abuja Bureau Chief

The Labour Party, LP,  needs miracle to survive and remain a viable political platform for the next cycle of elections in Nigeria.

This magazine can authoritatively reveal that the party is on the verge of totally losing the unprecedented electoral fortunes it gained in the 2023 general elections as the next wave of defections that will hit it, impeccable sources informed,  will claim all its members in the state and National Assembly as well as its only Governor, Alex Otti of Abia State.

At the end of the general election last year, the party, riding on the crest of its Presidential candidate and former Anambra state governor, Mr Peter Obi proved bookmakers and pundits wrong with a stunning performance.

LP won one governorship seat, eight Senate seats, 35 House of Reps seats and 39 House of Assembly seats.

However, internecine leadership crisis occasioned by the party’s National Chairman, Barrister Abure’s sit tight tendencies and alleged ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC’s destabilization agenda has left LP haemorrhaging. Early December, five LP House of Reps members announced their defection to the APC.

Earlier in August, the party’s only Senator from Imo state, Senator Francis Onyebuchi Ezenwa, representing Imo East Senatorial district had announced his defection to the APC on the floor of the Senate.The national leadership of the APC had allegedly lured the Senator with the party’s gubernatorial ticket for 2027 Imo governorship election.

The magazine was told that most of the remaining LP members in the National and state Assemblies are core loyalists of Obi and are merely bidding for time to enable their leader, Obi and other political leaders across the country and parties finalize formation of a mega party.

Said a source privy to the unfolding evisceration of the LP: “Before the end of the first quarter of 2025, a brand new party in which Obi wil play a central, pivotal role will be birthed and the rest of LP members currently holding elective positions, including Governor Otti,  will move over to the new party.

“It will interest you to know that Obi is practically out of LP, he is not just no longer enthusiastic about the party but also no longer find it a serious platform for the birth of a new Nigeria which he preaches, no thanks to Barrister Abure’s sit right tendencies.

“Obi and his group will be exiting the LP soon; they will be leaving the carcass of the party to Abure to do whatever he wants with it.

“The remaining LP members in the various state Houses of Assembly and the National Assembly are core Obi loyalists; they will move with their leader once the mega party is formed”