The Labour Party has given its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi a 48-hour ultimatum to resign from the party or get expelled.
The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party handed down the warning to Obi on Thursday.
NATIONAL POST reports that this was in reaction to Obi’s presence at the unveiling of African Democratic Congress, ADC, as the official platform of the opposition coalition.
Obi also confirmed in a post on his X handle that he is indeed part of the ADC movement.
Reacting, LP factional National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh said the LP under Abure’s leadership remained vehemently opposed to joining the coalition.
He dismissed members of the coalition as “power mongers whose only interest was self and not the people.”
He said the often mouthed ‘new Nigeria is Possible’ was a ruse and cannot be achieved with the assemblage of old, recycled, desperate and frustrated politicians in the coalition.
According to him, the party was aware that all those who mismanaged Nigeria over the years were the ones that gathered themselves in the coalition while noting that desperate politicians can’t birth new Nigeria.
“The Labour Party has consistently said it is not part of the coalition and therefore, any of our members who is part of the coalition is given within 48 hours to formally resign his membership of the party.
“I therefore urge all members of the party to remain loyal and keep the party structure intact ahead of future elections,” the statement read.
It could be recalled that the crisis within the LP had seen the party lose most of its National and State Assembly members across the country.
While some defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, others pitched their tent with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Those who had remained till now are expected to follow Obi to the ADC.