The Labour Party led by Julius Abure has stated that its former presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi won’t get the party’s ticket in 2027.
Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, disclosed this on Monday.
He said Obi’s supporters, known as Obidients, were giving Nigeria a hell of a problem.
The LP chieftain said Obi had been ruled out as its candidate for the election, adding that three names had been penciled down to be considered as LP presidential candidate in 2027.
Arabambi, who featured on Channels Television, said he would not reveal the three names as they could be kidnapped.
He said: "We are going to do our 2027 without Peter Obi, he will not have our ticket. If he likes, let him be promoting Nenadi Usman.
"We know their agenda is to make sure that Nigeria turns to South-East and that is not going to be acceptable.
"We have a lot of Southeasterners in the administration of Tinubu, a lot in Buhari's administration, and even Jonathan.
"Have you ever seen any one of them moving in this way, as agents of destruction?
"It's only the Obidient members of Obi that are giving Nigeria a hell of a problem and I wish them well in their coalition.
"If we begin to mention names but I know we have one from the Southwest, one from the Southsouth, and one from the Southeast.
"Our deputy candidate is a Southsouth and a woman with a reputation but I'm not going to mention her name.
"We are in a discussion right now with them to know the direction that we are going but not like these political extremists like Peter Obi that we are going to fly.
"If we mention their names, I can assure you that they are going to kidnap them because some people are just determined to kill Labour Party as we did not allow them to hijack the party for political insurrection, I know that they will go and kidnap them and we will not have a candidate, that's why we have to keep it under the wrap."
NATIONAL POST recalls that Obi is one of the opposition politicians in talks with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, powered coalition.
However, at the moment, he said he was still a member of the Labour Party.
