By Suleiman Anyalewechi
A former Secretary to the Anambra State Government, SSG, and staunch ally of Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party LP in the 2023 general elections, Oseloka Obaze, on Sunday, May 4, 2025, resigned his membership of the party.
In a letter made available to the Media, Obaze, who served as SSG during the tenure of Obi as Governor of Anambra State, cited the April 5, 2025, gubernatorial Primaries in the state as a major reason for his departure.
According to him, he had, on April 6, a day after the said party primaries communicated to the LP Chairman of Ward 406 in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state about his decision to exit the party.
Consequently, Obaze a former diplomat, informed that his resignation actually took effect from April 6, 2025.
Obaze who has worked closely with Obi for several years, including as an adviser, was one of the stalwarts of LP in the State.
He joined the ranks of LP in 2022, almost the same time as Obi from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the countdown to the 2023 General Elections.
He later became the place-holder for Obi as the Presidential candidate of the Party.
Obaze was to function as the Anambra State Coordinator of the Obi Presidential Campaign and one of the progenitors of the Obedient Movement .
He, however, noted that his resignation is to show his disapproval of the shambolic conduct of the party’s primaries in the State, which is billed to hold an off-circle gubernatorial poll on November 8,2025 .
“The processes, conduct and outcome of the Labour Party Governorship primaries held on April 5, 2025, in Awka were fraught with outright irregularities bothering on fraud and criminality.
“It was not in tandem with either the party’s constitution or espoused core values, or true tenets of democracy.
“As such, I hereby dissociate myself from the Labour Party. Obaze stated.
Furthermore, the former Anambra state SSG equally gave the festering leadership crisis at the national level of the party as part of his reasons for quitting.
According to him, the failure of the Julius Abure and Nenadi Esther Usman factions to reconcile has left him with no other option than to leave the party.
Instructively, Obaze was not known to be one of the gubernatorial aspirants of the party as he never bought its nomination form.
Only two people – Sir John Nwosu and Dr George Moghalu purchased LP’s expression of interest and nomination forms before the April 5 primaries.
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