15th August 2025
The Julius Abure faction of the Labour Party has described its presidential candidate of the LP in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, as an ‘Uber’ politician responsible for the crisis in the party.
The party also said Obi has has turned himself into an irony, and a paradox in the political landscape of Nigeria.
In a statement signed by Abure on Friday, the party accused Obi of undermining the party by directing its members to vote for the African Democratic Congress in the upcoming August 16, 2025, bye-election.
Obi, who has been involved with ADC but has not officially joined, in a statement on Thursday, urged his followers to vote for ADC candidates in their various states.
He said this is because of the lack of LP’s candidates in the by-elections.
“Kindly note that because the Labour Party has no recognised candidates by INEC due to the internal crisis, I humbly urge every member of Obidient and COPDEM families to go out and vote for the coalition political party, African Democratic Congress in their respective states.”
However, Abure urged party members to dismiss Obi’s directive, calling it “misleading, mischievous, and delusional.”
“The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a statement by the party’s former presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, directing party members to cast their votes for another party in the August 16, 2025, by-election.
“The party said that Obi’s directive is misleading, mischievous and delusional. The party is, however, calling on all our faithful party members to ignore this malicious directive and go ahead with casting their votes for the Labour Party and their candidates.
Abure said Obi’s itinerancy is contrary to what he claims to stand for.
“It is unfortunate that Obi has turned himself into an irony and a paradox in the Nigerian political space. He is now reputed to have elevated subterfuge in the game of politics and has, of late, been crying wolf where there is none.
“He has turned himself into an “Uber” politician, not willing to take a position and stand by his decision. He has now booked a place for himself in the Guinness Book of Records as a person affiliated to many political parties pari pasu, all in his desperation to preside over Nigeria.
Abure said Obi is responsible for the ongoing internal crisis in the party.
“Nigerians should not forget in a hurry that it was Peter Obi that created the crisis in the Labour Party, which he is now citing as a reason why people should not vote for the party. Peter Obi and Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State, hosted the ill-fated and illegal expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, September 4, 2024.
“He has also co-funded the crisis all these while and went as far as leading a protest march to INEC headquarters against his own party. His desperation to control the soul of the party has made him go haywire. A man that received so much goodwill from the party leadership but turned around to pay them with evil.
“This is why we have maintained that Peter Obi lacks the competence, character and capacity to actualise the vision of a new Nigeria. What Obi does not know is that the Labour Party is on the ballot and our candidates are contesting the election in spite of all his efforts to strangulate the Labour Party.”
He added that “the party unknown to him has done everything within the law to ensure that our candidates participate in the bye-election and, of course, in all other future elections.
“We are therefore encouraging our candidates, members and supporters across all the states where bye-elections are being held to be focused and ensure that we carry out our civic duties by returning the Labour Party and the candidates elected. Nigerians have come to know who Peter Obi really is,” the statement concluded.