A Labour Party (LP) chieftain and a governorship aspirant of the party in the Anambra State governorship election, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo has dumped the party. Ozigbo, an ally of the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, also contested the state governorship election in 2021 under the Peoples Democratic Party. Although he did not disclose his next line of action, …

Former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr George Moghalu, on Tuesday purchased the Labour Party’s (LP) ₦30 million nomination and expression of interest forms to contest the Anambra State off-cycle governorship election. The procurement of the forms took place at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Speaking shortly after receiving the forms, Moghalu assured journalists in …

A former spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo has resigned his membership of the party. Okonkwo was the LP campaign spokesperson in the 2023 election. In his resignation statement, he said the LP has been afflicted by internal and leadership crises. The Nollywood actor and political activist said: ‘My entrance to politics is for good …

Some chieftains of the Labour Party (LP) loyal to the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, have raised a motion for the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, to be sanctioned over the role he played in the internal strife of the party. They warned that Obi might face his worst electoral defeat in the 2027 …

The Leadership of the Ogun state chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has congratulated the National Chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure, on his recent victory at the Appeal Court where he was reaffirmed as the National Chairman of the party. The chapter in a statement by its Publicity Secretary Mr Tokunbo Peters in Abeokuta today described the Appeal …

The Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has commenced contempt proceedings against the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) before the Local Government Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Abeokuta, the state capital. LP is challenging the commission for its alleged failure to obey the orders of the tribunal directing it to grant unfettered access to the the party …

Labour Party (LP) has again denied working clandestinely for President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 general election. The National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh, clarified the party’s position in a statement in Abuja, on Friday. Ifoh’s rebuttal was in response to a viral video where a popular human rights lawyer, Deji …

The Labour Party (LP) in Ogun state has described the forthcoming local government election in the state as a referendum on the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). According to LP, APC has impoverished the people of the state and created so much pains, misery and hunger in the land. LP said that the people of the state had bee yearning …

As the crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) intensifies, the senator representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, on Tuesday, threw her weight behind the 29-man caretaker committee put in place by the party’s stakeholders last week. This was as activist Aisha Yesufu attacked LP National Chairman Julius Abure over the alleged misappropriation of campaign funds. An enlarged stakeholders’ meeting …

You’re a liar, Obi/ Datti blast Abure over 2023 campaign funds The presidential campaign team of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 election has dismissed the allegation by the embattled party’s National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure that only activist Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo superintended over the management of campaign funds. After a meeting of LP’s National Executive …