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Human rights lawyer and political activist Deji Adeyanju has criticised former Anambra State governor Peter Obi over what he described as the renewed use of churches for political engagement ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections. Adeyanju’s comments followed Obi’s recent appearance at a church service at Koinonia Global in Abuja, where the former Labour Party…
Abuja | July 19, 2025 The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party has announced significant leadership changes, appointing Senator Nenadi Usman as the Interim National Chairman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha as the Interim National Secretary. The appointments were made at an emergency NEC meeting held earlier today, signaling a new direction in the…
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The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party (LP) has revealed that it would not give Peter Obi its presidential ticket for the 2027 election. That LP faction advised Peter Obi to seek another political platform to pursue his presidential ambition. Speaking to The PUNCH on Wednesday, the spokesman for the faction, Abayomi Arabambi, said…
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The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has struck out about 17 paragraphs of the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) for containing vague and generic allegations. In a ruling on some motions filed by the respondents to the petition, the court held that in the affected paragraphs, the petitioners made allegations of…
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The leadership of the Labour Party has knocked President Bola Tinubu over the first batch of ministerial nominees unveiled by the Senate on Thursday. The LP said the ministerial nominees were an assemblage of ‘recycled, spent forces and anti-democratic elements.’ Mixed reactions have continued to trail the announcement of the nominees, with some critics expressing…
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The leadership crisis lingering in the Labour Party (LP) has recently taken a worse turn as the Barr Julius Abure and the Lamide Apapa -led factions fight dirty in the media space trading words over a planned National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Bauchi State. Last week, the party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi and other…
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The Asaba National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Labour party has been described as illegal. This statement was made by the factional Chairman of the Labour Party, Bashir Apapa. Bashir Apapa further stated that the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi is not qualified to rule the country. He further said the presence of the…
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The Labour Party has said it was confident that Nigerians wouldn’t be intimidated into abandoning their legitimate, legal right to seek judicial redress to reclaim their mandate which was freely given to the LP Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi which was brazenly stolen. Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party, Dr Yunusa Tanko, said this in response…
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the last presidential election, Mr Peter Obi has urged Nigerians to refuse accepting the outcome of a rigged election as the will of God. He said the problem of Nigerians over the years was accepting what was wrong and unacceptable as God’s wish for the country. Obi spoke when…
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Labour Party has sacked its National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and dissolved Ogun State chapter executives of the party for alleged anti-party practice. The National Working Committee of the party took the decision, following their role in the alleged expulsion of Doyin Okupe, the Director General of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council. During the emergency meeting…
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Dissolves Ogun Excos” »