Peter Obi reaffirms loyalty to Labour Party amid defection speculation

The Presidential campaigner of the Labour Party (LP) successful the 2023 wide elections, Peter Obi, has restated his committedness to the governmental party.

Obi, successful a connection connected Thursday, said helium remains a committed and loyal subordinate of the Labour Party, putting doubts astir his loyalty to bed.

“For the avoidance of doubt, I stay a committed, loyal Labour Party member. That is my definitive effect to each Nigerians who whitethorn beryllium successful uncertainty astir my enactment affiliation successful airy of caller reports and conflicting interpretations of caller governmental expressions,” Obi said connected X.

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“I person conscionable been confronted by a writer astatine Abuja airdrome wanting to cognize if my connection connected the Obidient Movement yesterday is simply a awesome of my leaving the Labour Party.

“For the attraction of each those holding specified an content and for the wide public, I stay a faithful, committed, and loyal subordinate of the Labour Party.

“Indeed, arsenic a person of the party, my aspiration and desire, moving intimately with different leaders, is to reconcile our valued members and spouse with similar minds and parties each implicit the state to physique a beardown and amended enactment that volition catalyse and commence the rebuilding of a caller Nigeria.”

Obi said his connection connected Wednesday was intended to clarify immoderate issues that are of interest to the teeming supporters of the Obidient Movement, immoderate of whom are not members of immoderate governmental enactment but are desirous of a caller Nigeria.

As crises proceed to stone the Labour Party implicit the presumption of the Obidient Movement, Obi had said that the Movement cannot beryllium annexed by immoderate governmental party.

Despite the enactment creating a directorate for the Obidient Movement and appointing 8 ‘Obidient’ members to power its affairs, helium stated that nary governmental enactment tin make a directorate for the Obidient Movement.

The main mentor of the Obidient Movement successful Nigeria indicated that the radical is beyond a governmental enactment and cannot beryllium annexed oregon subsumed into one.

A connection by his spokesperson, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, quoted the erstwhile politician of Anambra authorities explaining connected his X grip connected Wednesday.

“I privation to categorically authorities that the Obidient Movement is not a directorate successful immoderate peculiar governmental party,” Obi was quoted arsenic saying.

“Any idiosyncratic oregon individuals claiming to beryllium leaders of this non-existent directorate are simply not members of the broader Obidient Movement.”

LP spokesman, Obiorah Ifoh, had earlier explained the instauration of the directorate arsenic portion of the party’s repositioning efforts to integrate millions of youths, peculiarly the ‘Obidient’ family, into the Labour Party.

However, successful effect to Obi’s clarification, the enactment renamed the Obidient Directorate arsenic the Directorate of Mobilization and Integration.