MARCH 31 2024
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has broken his silence over his absence from the just concluded National Convention of the party held in Nnewi, his native Anambra State. Obi, who interacted with his supporters on X (formally Twitter), explained why he stayed away from the Nnewi convention.
The former Governor of Anambra State, who expressed these views on his verified X Space hosted by Parallel Facts, explained that he was more passionate about building “a new Nigeria” than building a new LP.
Obi said, “We promised to build Nigeria; we did not promise to build a New Labour Party.
‘What I told party chaiman’
“When the chairman approached me about the convention, I appealed to him to consult all stakeholders, starting from Governor (Alex) Otti, Vice Presidential Candidate (Yusuf) Datti, to Senators, House of Reps members, gubernatorial candidates, and all other groups, for us to have NLC, TUC.
“It is documented for us to have a properly organised convention, starting with congresses, because we have to organise ourselves at the grassroots, where we have problems. It is after we organise ourselves that we can go into the convention.”
He also revealed that there was supposed to be a stakeholders meeting where positions would have been agreed on to accommodate the various interests that make up the party, but that this was not done.
The 2023 LP presidential candidate said he has so far refrained from making public comments on allegations of financial impropriety against Abure because “we have written a competent, qualified auditor to audit the accounts of the Labour Party and our campaign.”
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