Tag: Labour Party
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Obi, Otti want to hijack party leadership through back door – LP
The Abure-led Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday accused Mr Peter Obi and Dr Alex Otti of seeking to hijack the leadership of the party through the back door. Mr Obiora Ifoh, National Secretary of the party, said this in a statement he issued in Abuja.
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Labour Party to boycott council polls in Anambra East
The Labour Party (LP) in Anambra East Local Government Area (LGA) has threatened to boycott the September 28 Local Government Elections in the area. The LG Chairman and Secretary of the party, Mr Chidi Chinwuba and Mr Onyeka Aghadiuno, made the threat in a statement issued in Awka and made avaliable to newsmen on Friday.
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Labour Party stakeholders officially write INEC over 29-man care-taker committee
Following the crisis rocking the party, the Labour Party, (LP) stakeholders have officially written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the 29-man care-taker committee to lead the party in the interim.
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2027 elections: Labour Party strips Peter Obi, others of automatic ticket
The Labour Party has said there would be no automatic ticket for Mr Peter Obi and Governor Alex Otti of Abia State in the 2027 presidential and governorship elections.
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Labour Party crisis: Obi joins forces with Otti, others to remove Abure
Following the crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP), the sole governor of the party, Dr. Alex Otti and the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, joined others to elect ex-minister of finance, Mrs Nenadi Usman, as caretaker Chairman of the party.
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Ex-Finance minister Usman emerges Labour Party’s caretaker chairman
Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nnenadi Usman, has emerged as the chairman of a 29-member national caretaker committee of the Labour Party (LP). She was elected senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to represent Kaduna South Senatorial District in the April 2011 elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). She later…
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Labour Party threatens to boycott Anambra LG election
Labour Party (LP) Publicity Secretary in Anambra State, Mr Theo Egbe has said the party will not participate in the September 28 local government area election scheduled to hold in the State. Egbe said that the party would also challenge the electioneering process in court over alleged inability to abide by the electoral guidelines. Egbe…
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Reps member suspended from Labour Party in Lagos
The Ojo Chapter of the Labour Party in Lagos State on Wednesday suspended Mr Seyi Sowunmi, the lawmaker representing Ojo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, for three months. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Oluwanifemi Elegbede, the Chairman and Mrs Blessing Okafor, Secretary of the party, in Ojo, Lagos.
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Ondo Governorship Election: Labour Party disowns Ebiseni
The Labour Party has disassociated itself from Chief Olusola Ebiseni, the Secretary-General of Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, as the party’s candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Ondo.
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Olympics: Peter Obi expresses disappointment at Team Nigeria’s poor outing
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP) in