The Labour Party (LP) faction led by the National Chairman, Julius Abure, has accused its former Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi and Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, of being responsible for the leadership crisis in the party.
The party absolved the Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of any blame.
It further argued that the LP was at peace until Otti and Obi set up a caretaker committee while the tenure of the Abure leadership subsisted.
Obi had in an interview on national television on Monday blamed the crisis in the LP on the Federal Government, whom he accused of using infiltrators to destabilise the party.
‘The problem we have in LP is a problem instigated and sustained by the government of today’, he said.
In a statement yesterday, the National Secretary of the Abure faction, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, challenged Obi to provide proof.
It stated: ‘The problem with the LP was not created by the ruling party. Rather, the problem in the Labour Party was created and sustained by Peter Obi and Dr. Alex Otti, the governor of Abia State, who is presently serving a suspension for anti-party activities.
‘We dare Obi to produce any tangible or intangible evidence which suggests remotely or otherwise that the Abure leadership of the LP is in bed with the APC-led government.
‘Nobody is infallible, and it behoves anyone who makes mistakes to be bold enough to own it. When good leaders fail, they should own up to their responsibilities. Obi failed to provide leadership for the party. He should own up to his mistakes.
‘It is, therefore, shameful for Obi and Dr. Otti to continue to accuse the government of infiltrating the Labour Party and by so doing demarketing the party’.
The camp recalled the sacrifices the LP had to make in the past to accommodate Obi to contest the election in 2023.
