The Acting National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Nenadi Usman, has confirmed that the party approved Peter Obi’s decision to join an opposition coalition led by David Mark.
Usman slammed the Julius Abure-led group within the LP as “political jesters” with no legitimate standing in the party.
Usman in a statement on Thursday, through her aide Ken Asogwa, stressed that Abure and those behind the 48-hour ultimatum issued to Obi to resign were “neither recognised by the party nor by the law, having long been sacked by the Supreme Court of Nigeria the highest court in the land and suspended from the party for their serial acts of indiscipline and anti-party activities”.
According to Usman, the LP had given its blessings to Obi to participate in coalition talks aimed at creating a robust political alternative to rescue Nigeria from the APC’s misrule.
She emphasised that Obi’s participation in the coalition activities was done with the full knowledge, approval, and support of the LP leadership.
”For the avoidance of doubt, the leadership of the Labour Party, on May 26, 2025, publicly declared its full support for Mr. Obi’s involvement in the coalition efforts aimed at creating a robust political alternative to rescue Nigeria from the disastrous misrule of the APC. That position has not changed.
“We wish to reaffirm that Mr Peter Obi’s participation in the coalition activities, including the ADC unveiling, was done with the full knowledge, approval, and support of the Labour Party leadership.
“It is the remnants of the disorder and mess left behind by these impostors that the current leadership under Senator Nenadi Usman continues to clean.
”Therefore, members of the public, and especially the media, are urged to disregard the distractions and mischief from these discredited elements, ” she said.
The opposition coalition, which include notable figures such as Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai, and Rotimi Amaechi, has adopted the African Democratic Party (ADC) as its platform for the 2027 election.
