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The Pathfinder
Thursday July 3, 2025
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Erstwhile presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, who teamed up with the anti-Tinubu coalition group that has adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the platform for the 2027 general elections, clarified it was a difficult but necessary step for Nigeria’s political future.
Just as the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party has given Peter Obi a 48-hour ultimatum to leave the party after he joined the coalition.
Speaking further, Obi said the move followed deep reflection on the nation’s current challenges and the urgent need for transformative leadership.
“Yesterday, the coalition members formally adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2027 Nigeria General Elections with Distinguished Senator David Mark serving as the National Chairman and H.E. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola serving as the National Secretary,” Obi wrote in an X post on Thursday.
“This decision was not made lightly. It comes from deep reflection on where we are as a country and what must be done to move forward,” he noted.
The coalition members, which include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former transport minister Rotimi Amaechi, and former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, formally endorsed the ADC as their political vehicle for 2027 at the unveiling in Abuja on Tuesday.
“Our commitment is to sacrifice and work together towards the 2027 General Elections, ensuring that Nigeria gets a competent, capable, and compassionate leadership that will prioritize the nation’s future by putting the welfare of Nigerians first,” Obi said.
The 63-year-old, who has proposed to serve a single term in office, stressed that no single group could bring about the sweeping change Nigeria needs, saying: “To dismantle the structures that keep our people in poverty and insecurity, we must build bridges, not walls even when those bridges are uneasy.”
Abure-led LP gives Obi 48 hours to leave the party
The ultimatum for Obi to resign from the LP was contained in a statement signed by the faction’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, in Abuja, on Thursday.
Ifoh explained that the Labour Party under Abure’s leadership remains vehemently opposed to joining any coalition, and dismissed members of the coalition as “power mongers whose only interest was self and not the people.”
The party warned Nigerians that the often-mouthed ‘new Nigeria is Possible’ is a ruse and cannot be achieved with the assemblage of old, recycled, desperate, and frustrated politicians in the coalition.
Ifoh said the party is aware that all those who mismanaged Nigeria over the years are the ones who gathered themselves in the coalition while noting that desperate politicians can’t birth a new Nigeria.
He said, “We are aware of several nocturnal meetings between Peter Obi and some of our members, lobbying them to join him in his new party. We’re also aware that a number of them have refused to defect with him.
“Labour Party has consistently said it is not part of the coalition and therefore, any of our members who is part of the coalition is given within 48 hours to formally resign his membership of the party.
“Labour Party is not available for people with dual agenda, people with deceptive persona. The party will not avail itself to individuals who have one leg in one Party and another leg elsewhere.
“People that in the morning, they will claim to be in the Labour Party and in the evening they are in coalition.
“Nearly 70 percent of the Nigerian population are youths who are tired of the old order, tired of gerontocrats deciding their fate. The new Nigeria that the youths are dreaming of, is not what can be realized from what we are seeing in the coalition.
“These people are opportunistic politicians who are only interested in relaunching themselves into the circle of power, people who are desperate to continue holding on to power.
“The new Nigeria of our dream can only be realized through Labour Party and the party is willing to lead Nigerians along that trajectory.
“I, therefore, urge all members of the party to remain loyal and keep the party structure intact ahead of future elections.”
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