effort1:


It's because Obi won't run your country like "business as usual", which Will be the case with PDP or APC.

Obi will make sure your country's finances are well managed so that you and your family members will not suffer from the activities of morally rotten politicians.

PureMe01:


Stale wish from agbado dogs.
Even your APC politicians who started the line are now lying low cos they know Obi is coming

ganisucks:

Bob Izua, a notorious infamous Benin cultist funded Oshiomole's campaign into office in Edo state.
He didn't start wearing khaki openly till after Oshiomole had clocked one year in office.
Politics is about scheming and planning.

Bundaweber:


continue with your lies. e go soon clear you

sreamsense:
It is because expiring date on LP is short. By February, after Obi is sent back to Anambra; labour party expires, there is no even probability that Obi will last in LP after loosing out. So, as you check expiring date before you purchase a product; so also experience political leader first check expiring date on LP to know if it will last or not, but they know it wouldn't go beyond February

ganisucks:


Simple, President Obi has been told not to accept any open defections for now. The script is for Peter and Labour Party to appear different from the norm; they can't appear as such if they accept people like Fani Kayode at this moment. After the victory of Obi in 2023, you will see millions of politicians who defected now, officially declaring to be members of labour Party. All is politics.

Misterone:
not only that, it is a party of strange bedfellows. Obi is a capitalist while Labour party is a socialist party. It is like Lewis Hamilton driving a tuketuke, one must give up on the other. No person in his/her right mind will invest in a failed project. As you can see, it is only political failures that are in the Labour party.

ganisucks:

Wrong, labour Party is the vehicle and President Obi is the one with the ticket. The cabal simply needed a party that would make their candidate look like the nativity of baby Jesus. It's the same way they repackaged Buhari as John the Baptist. It's all about managing and controlling the interests and moods of the Nigerian populace so that production will continue as usual.

effort1:


It's because Obi won't run your country like "business as usual", which Will be the case with PDP or APC.

Obi will make sure your country's finances are well managed so that you and your family members will not suffer from the activities of morally rotten politicians.

tsdarkside:


this is what many igbos dont understand....
its about the party and not about tinubu....

i adviced them to stop concentratin on tinubu,but they didnt listenend....
apc is finishin the 2nd naija bridge....

thats all we care about....
apc revived the nigerian army,thats all we care about....
many social programs,thats all we care about....

Misterone:
well, to me, I don't believe that Buhari failed. Most people think government exist to put money in their pockets, no. Government is all about providing an enabling environment for the people to go about their daily affairs with peace of mind justice and equity. Yes, Buhari is not the Eldorado but compared to the previous government and challenges during this period, I believe he has done well.

Eniitankorede:
This is the question on the minds of many people and myself. Even in southeast we never hear of any notable politicians defecting to or supporting Labour Party and Obi. They are treating Obi like a leper. Why is that so? Are they afraid or what? Can anyone explain why Labour Party is being treated like a leper.

naptu2:
Some people claim that people who worked with Bola Tinubu (when he was a governor) are in his campaign team and people who worked with Atiku Abubakar (when he was vice president) are in his campaign team, but that people who worked with Peter Obi are no where to be found.

I am shocked that some supporters of Peter Obi are accepting this argument, despite the fact that it is totally false.


Yes, the argument is totally false and I will begin by explaining why it appears to be true, despite the fact that it is completely false.



Both Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu have had structures in the Federal Government, while Peter Obi has never really had structures in the Federal Government. Atiku was the vice president from 1999 till 2007 and therefore he was able to nominate members of his structure into positions within the Federal Government.

Bola Tinubu was one of the two main people that formed the APC and the APC has had control of the Federal Government since 2015. Therefore, he has been able to nominate members of his structure into the Federal Government.


The result of this is that members of Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu's structures are more famous than the members of Peter Obi's structure. Therefore, people who are not well informed will not know the members of Peter Obi's structure.

Oseloka Obaze was secretary to the Anambra State Government when Peter Obi was governor and he is one of the key players in Obi's presidential campaign team. How can you say that people who worked with Peter Obi are not in his campaign team? Chief Obaze was also the PDP governorship candidate in the 2017 Anambra Governorship Election and Peter Obi campaigned heavily for him.


Valentine Obienyem was special assistant on media and publicity to Governor Peter Obi and today he is a key member of Mr Obi's presidential campaign team.


Peter Obi also heavily campaigned for Valentine Ozigbo, the governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2021 Anambra Governorship election and Mr Ozigbo dumped the PDP and moved over to the Labour Party in order to support Mr Obi.


There are also many other people who have been part of Peter Obi's structure for many years and who are presently working for his election as president of Nigeria. It's just that they are not as well known as the people in Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu's structures.

naptu2:


Let's start with your headline. You wrote, "Why Is No One Defecting To Labour Party"? The fact of the matter is that people are defecting to the Labour Party.

Now, you know that people are defecting to the Labour Party, that's why you qualified the statement in the body of your post. You then wrote, "Even in southeast we never hear of any notable politicians defecting to or supporting Labour Party and Obi". What is your definition of "notable politicians".


There are many variations of this theme (which has gone viral in the past few months), but it is not really true. I believe that it is a ploy to make it seem as if nobody is supporting Peter Obi, because it is quite easy to mention people that have defected to the Labour Party in order to support Peter Obi.


I wrote this in October.



In addition to the people listed above, I can also include:

Dr Doyin Okupe: was a House of Representatives candidate of the NPN in 1983. He was the national publicity secretary of the NRC in the early 1990s. He was a media assistant to Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. He was an Ogun State governorship aspirant on the platform of the PDP. In fact, he was a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP until a few months ago when he defected to the Labour Party and became the director general of Peter Obi's campaign organisation.


Victor Umeh was the former national chairman of APGA. He also defected to the Labour Party. He is also a former senator.

Professor Pat Utomi is also a member of the Labour Party and in fact, he is a member of Peter Obi's campaign team.

Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi, a current senator from Imo State, defected to the Labour Party from the PDP.

There have been members of state houses of assembly and other politicians that have defected to the Labour Party.

Eniitankorede:






You have struggled to produce the names of few featherweights as defectors. I am even surprised you made attempts at all. Your fellow sojourners believed there are no defectors because Peter Obi no dey give shishi. These defectors you mentioned, if they were not given shishi, what was there motivation? If they believed Obi would win, why aren’t notable politicians joining the bandwagon? There’s no way you will argue your way out of this. Peter Obi and LP are bad market, like the leprous fingers of a leper. That’s the main reason for avoiding LP. Because every politician wants to be in a winning party, not party of fantasy and hooliganism that has no hope of winning election.

naptu2:


Hahahahahahahahaha

I didn't struggle anything. These are people that are well known and it is well known that they have defected to the Labour Party. That makes your claim that nobody has defected to the Labour Party false. C'est fini. The rest of your post is just political nonsense (who the heck are "my fellow sojourners and where are they sojourning? What the hell does "giving shishi" have to do with the fact that the premise of your title is false? ).

Eniitankorede:





Give me five names that have won elections in the past among those people? Many of them are small political appointees. That’s why they are featherweight.

Eniitankorede:
This is the question on the minds of many people and myself. Even in southeast we never hear of any notable politicians defecting to or supporting Labour Party and Obi. They are treating Obi like a leper. Why is that so? Are they afraid or what? Can anyone explain why Labour Party is being treated like a leper.

Moh247:
Why will anyone want to move backwards?! Leaving mainstream party for a social media party of dregs and lowlife noisemaking dunce

Eniitankorede:
This is the question on the minds of many people and myself. Even in southeast we never hear of any notable politicians defecting to or supporting Labour Party and Obi. They are treating Obi like a leper. Why is that so? Are they afraid or what? Can anyone explain why Labour Party is being treated like a leper.

Bobloco:


Nigeria as a whole have moved backward since the emergence of APC at the national level,

come 2023 Nigerians are so eager to send APC, the Emilokan drug lord and demonic muslim muslim ticket packing

Eniitankorede:




Many of you are too arrogant and self conceited. I am old enough to be your grandfather. I was there when Awolowo was campaigning under UPN. Tinubu is not an age cheat. Before you were borne, we were there when Tinubu was a very young governor. Tinubu made his money from working with international companies. Obi made his money from selling drugs because he was from a poor home. Obi is the real age cheat because we saw his class group photograph which was dated and his recent utterances in Rivers state indicate Obi is at least 8 years older than his declared age. Obi falsified his degree and NYSC certificates. Many of these you cannot know because you are fed with lies from media that is allied with Obi. This Obi is a snake under the grass, very crooked and knows how to hide his mess. But some of us are wiser than you and smarter than you.

ExudeLoveToAll:


@bolded doesn't portray you as someone who has past the age of 60.

What is difference between what you typed here and what teens type on this forum.

You still had the guts to brag about witnessing awolowo in UPN, you portray false narrative without any single iota of facts and still brag of been someone's grandfather. Nairaland is something else.

Eniitankorede:






These are the hooligans we talk about. All what i stated were displayed here on Nairaland. Ask your fellow travellers if I am wrong.

TheboyGhost:



Now read my Comment again!!!

This time read it like an Educated homo and not like someone I raped his sisters please.

tsdarkside:


nigeria is complex....
you cant run it like a business....

many different interests to consider....
in a business you can just sack people that dont play along....

a country is something completly different....

naptu2:
Since that guy doesn't want to play, I am going to post my answers here.

As I said, there are many prominent politicians that have defected to the Labour Party since Peter Obi moved there. Some of them have moved to the Labour Party because they are part of Peter Obi's structure, some moved because, although they are not part of Peter Obi's structure, they believe in his message, some moved to the Labour Party because they see an opportunity to build structures in a smaller party (something that they could not do in their previous parties) and some have moved because they lost out in the politics of their previous parties.

I will begin with the people that I mentioned in my previous posts. These are people that are part of Peter Obi's structure.

Oseloka Obaze worked as a diplomat in the Nigerian Foreign Service from 1982 till 1991. He then worked for the United Nations from 1991 till 2012. He was appointed secretary to the Anambra State Government by Governor Peter Obi in 2012. He was the PDP candidate in the Anambra governorship elections in 2017 and Peter Obi campaigned heavily for him.

Valentine Ozigbo is a former banker who was made CEO of Transcorp Hotels PLC and then CEO of the Transcorp Group. He was the PDP candidate in the 2021 Anambra governorship elections and Peter Obi campaigned heavily for him.


Valentine Obienyem is a lawyer and a journalist who has served as special assistant to many ministers and heads of government agencies. He was special assistant on new media to Governor Peter Obi

These others are not part of Peter Obi's structure, but they have defected to the Labour Party.


Dr Doyin Okupe: was a House of Representatives candidate of the NPN in 1983. He was the national publicity secretary of the NRC in the early 1990s. He was a media assistant to Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan. He was an Ogun State governorship aspirant on the platform of the PDP. In fact, he was a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP until a few months ago when he defected to the Labour Party and became the director general of Peter Obi's campaign organisation.


The guy asked for 5 people that have defected to the Labour Party and who have also previously won elections. Here they are.


Victor Umeh was a member of the PDP at the beginning of the 4th Republic, but he left the PDP in 2001 to take up positions in the APGA. He held various positions in APGA and rose to become the national chairman of the party. He was national chairman of APGA when Peter Obi became governor of Anambra State. In fact, it was during his tenure that the party had two governors, Peter Obi of Anambra and Rochas Okorocha of Imo. He was also a member of the 2014 National Conference.

He left the chairmanship of APGA in 2015 and in 2018 he was elected and sworn in as the senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District.

Victor Umeh is currently the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 Anambra Central senatorial election.


Tony Nwoye is a medical doctor who was Anambra State chairman of the PDP. He was elected into the Federal House of Representatives to represent Anambra East/West constituency in 2011. He was the PDP candidate in the 2013 Anambra governorship election and was also the APC candidate in the 2017 Anambra governorship election.

Dr Tony Nwoye is currently the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 Anambra North senatorial election.

Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi was once a member of APGA and the PDP. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2015 to represent Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West Federal Constituency. He was elected to the Senate in 2019 to represent Imo East Senatorial District. He is currently the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 Imo East senatorial election.


Daniel Nanbol is the member of the Plateau State House of Assembly representing Langtang North Central district. He has also defected to the Labour Party.

George Ozodinobi Ibezimako was elected to represent Njikoka/Anaocha/Dunukofia Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives on the platform of APGA in 2003. He was an aspirant for the same position on the platform of the PDP just a few months ago. He resigned from the PDP and defected to the Labour Party and is currently the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 election for the same post.