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 …

The chairman of the Labour Party (LP), in Imo State, Calistus Ihejiagwa, has said that the party would not participate in the forthcoming 21 September local government election in the state. Ihejiagwa stated this during the party’s stakeholders meeting in Owerri, the Imo State capital over the weekend. He said, “We cannot participate in any election organized by the All …

The Labour Party (LP) has said its former presidential candidate Peter Obi and the party are not part of the planned EndBadGovernance protest. The LP said this in a statement on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh. The statement reads: “The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a tweet purportedly from one …

Ahead of the upcoming United Kingdom general election, Nigerian political figure Peter Obi has urged voters to “Vote Labour on Thursday 4 July.” This intervention comes as the UK prepares for what pollsters predict will be a landslide victory for the Labour Party in the UK. Obi’s statement on Tuesday via X, though brief, is one of many voices in …

The Labour Party (LP) has renamed the ‘Directorate of Obidient Affairs’ to the ‘Directorate of Mobilisation and Integration’. This was contained in a statement published on the party’s website on Thursday and signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh. Ifoh said: “Following the controversies arising from the creation of the Directorate of Obidient Affairs, in the party, the …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in last year’s general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, on Wednesday, punctured the bubbles of the party’s governorship candidate in Edo State, Barrister Olumide Akpata, when he declared that Obidient Movement does not belong to or resident in any political party. Akpata has been banking on the Obidient Movement as his superstructure of support for …

The leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has called on the Federal Government and organised labour to return to the negotiation table and arrive at an acceptable position for the sake of suffering Nigerians In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, LP noted that Nigeria has been thrown into darkness, hospitals shut and water pipes drained in …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed conviction that the Labour Party (LP) presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, won’t back Julius Abure to remain in office as party national chairman. The Deputy President of the NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, disclosed this in an interview with Saturday PUNCH. Ndubuaku also refuted the claim that the union had resolved its …