₦airaland Forum

By Imoleayo Oyedeyi

The spokesperson for the Julius Abure’s bloc of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, speaks with IMOLEAYO OYEDEYI, on the defection of the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress

You recently said the Labour Party regretted presenting Peter Obi as its presidential candidate in 2023 following his defection to the ADC. Considering the nationwide visibility and electoral relevance he brought to the party, on what basis does the party now describe his candidature as a regret?

I am not sure I ever said we regretted fielding Obi in 2023, because at that time, we assumed he was the best candidate because he passed some of our qualification standards. And he appeared to us as somebody that would understand the politics of social democracy, equal opportunity, and justice, because that was our main emphasis in choosing all our candidates. Everything we campaigned for was according to that vision.

Subsequently, what we saw from him was not what we expected. He became anti-democratic in the sense that he wanted us to follow routes that are not democratic at all. That was the point of departure from him, and the rest is history. We don’t want to be talking about the past. We are talking about the present and the future.

What specific actions did Obi take that are considered inconsistent with the LP’s principles and values?

We expected that after the election and the court cases, as a leader that he was, Obi ought to begin to work towards improving on the six million votes that we got, by way of doing a postmortem of what happened and bringing everybody on board; appreciate the leadership that worked with him, that went through Sambisa, all nooks and crannies of this nation to campaign for him. We stood by him during the court matter, refused every offer here and there. We refused to budge, and we supported him.

Only for him to, after a few months, come back and say that our executive should leave. We asked him why our executive should leave office when we were elected, and he even supported the convention. And before you know it, he mobilised some members of the National Assembly that were loyal to him, and the Abia State Governor to remove us by all means.

The party’s constitution stated how somebody should be removed from office, but he didn’t have the patience to wait until our tenure elapsed. So, are those not enough reasons to tag him undemocratic? These are our reasons.

However, there are allegations that the party’s fallout with Obi stemmed from his refusal to give money to the LP’s executives. How do you respond to this claim?

I am hearing that for the first time. Nobody has ever accused us of making a demand from Obi. And of course, he would not even give. When the election was going on, he gave nothing. I’m sure you remember that mantra: no shishi, Obi no dey give shishi. Even during the presidential campaign, he managed his own funds. I’m sure you read it everywhere, with people like Aisha and the rest of them.

The party was not part of his campaign management or the finance of the campaign, and we didn’t bother about that. Everything that was supposed to get to the party, he didn’t give us. He didn’t even donate a bicycle, not a single car. So, we were not interested in all those things. We wanted a Nigeria that would be good for everyone because we knew that if we won, with the Labour Party ideology, everybody would be fine.

https://punchng.com/obi-became-anti-democratic-after-2023-election-lp-chieftain/

So Atiku,ameachi,Elrufai and all others will bring their money to invest on Peter Obi?…joke of the century

Obi never believed in democracy right from the on set

When Nigerians were protesting against Abacha's regime wanting the restoration of democracy back to Nigeria, Peter Obi was busy getting appointment from the same Abacha meaning he cared less

In Peter Obi's 8 years as Anambra state governor, he only conducted local government election in his last year in office and that was even forced by court not that he wished to. Democracy mean nothing to Peter Obi

A real democrat should be able to contest party primary election for any position he might be seeking for but in Peter Obi's political journey, he has never participated in any political primary election before.

https://www.nairaland.com/8595229/peter-obi-never-contested-political

Obi my wished president... hope this dream will come to pass 2027

No be lie.. Na so e be. Orisirisi

"The party was not part of his campaign management or the finance of the campaign, and we didn’t bother about that. Everything that was supposed to get to the party, he didn’t give us. He didn’t even donate a bicycle, not a single car"

Obi traumatic syndrome, Obi just left the party and INEC immediately declared the mole Abure as not the authentic Chairman, the above quote is why this man is ranting, he wanted Obi to be sharing money and cars

This is the APC faction of LP so no need to read what they have to say.

You'll wail till death do you part

Stfu already


Ingrates and sell ots who would rather collect brown envelope and destroy LP from within

Obi cannot associate with back-stabbers

Your tenure expired, still, you people parading yourself as executive, even when court & INEC had nullified your existence as validily elected party executive......is that not ANTI-DEMICRATIC too?

Obi pass una X100 times over after collecting tilumbu's bribe to destabilize the LP you have started crying because Peter Obi left your coven to be free?

Lanretoye:
So Atiku,ameachi,Elrufai and all others will bring their money to invest on Peter Obi?…joke of the century

But APC can invest 30k on you so you will spend all your waking moments on nairaland defending tilumbu's inadequacies abi?

This BATstat is a Joke of the millennium 😏

Exactly! The Agulu con artist became delusional after losing the election.

Democracy is a big scam thanks to our drug trafficker and dead bulabu, with their yahoo party

I will vote for Sheikh Gumi before Peter Obituary

Una fit insult anybody but nobody can insult obi... like he's not a politician or he's better than others. He's just a lesser evil and has far he's a politician he will get his own insults too.

SeeWahala:
But APC can invest 30k on you so you will spend all your waking moments on nairaland defending tilumbu's inadequacies abi?

This BATstat is a Joke of the millennium 😏

my friend go and sit down somewhere with all these your WhatsApp group nonsense,sometimes I wonder if some of you ever have opportunity to use your brains or you must depend on someone else to think for you.
It is the adequacies of Obi that makes more people relocate to the east the way you people relocate to the north and west.
Is it not even better and wiser to collect 30k to defend Tinubu than your people taking gala and malt with 500naira to defend your eastern mediocrity.

Sometimes I wish Obi will become president so we all can see how incompetent, undemocratic, selfish and the real tribal bigot that he is.

Overhyped hypocrite

SeeWahala:
But APC can invest 30k on you so you will spend all your waking moments on nairaland defending tilumbu's inadequacies abi?

This BATstat is a Joke of the millennium 😏

I bet you wish you were receiving payment to be a nuisance online.

very unstable man . Person wey swear/CURSED himself that if he leave APGA the Cockerell ,the Ikemba Gburugburu party. Make him BEND cannot be trusted

He became anti democratic the day he started to wash toilet and serve food in parties

kennyz247:
Obi my wished president... hope this dress will come to pass 2027

He's already a President; Online President. That's the highest he can attain

Kuginzi:
By Imoleayo Oyedeyi

The party was not part of his campaign management or the finance of the campaign, and we didn’t bother about that. Everything that was supposed to get to the party, he didn’t give us. He didn’t even donate a bicycle, not a single car. So, we were not interested in all those things. We wanted a Nigeria that would be good for everyone because we knew that if we won, with the Labour Party ideology, everybody would be fine.

https://punchng.com/obi-became-anti-democratic-after-2023-election-lp-chieftain/

Na wa o, Aisha dem nor gree LP pipo see Obidient moni.

A campaign built on monetary greed.

wellmax:
I bet you wish you were receiving payment to be a nuisance online.

Hmmm, 🤔 so someone is indeed paying you to be the nuisance you are today on this forum?

I'd keep that in mind 😏

aswani:
Na wa o, Aisha dem nor gree LP pipo see Obidient moni.

A campaign built on monetary greed.

APC agbadoid divisional captain don sho 🤗 aswani the chameleon 🦎 pro max

So if Peter Obi and obidients have monetary greed . . . What sort of greed does you and your tilumbu have? 🤔

Lanretoye:
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Is it not even better and wiser to collect 30k to defend Tinubu than your people taking gala and malt with 500naira to defend your eastern mediocrity.

I understand you must be the wisest man in your village for accepting that 30k stipend for selling your soul and extended family to terrorism 😏

SeeWahala:
APC agbadoid divisional captain don sho 🤗 aswani the chameleon 🦎 pro max

So if Peter Obi and obidients have monetary greed . . . What sort of greed does you and your tilumbu have? 🤔

I don't have any and President Tinubu is not my "tilumbu" (sìc) seeing as I have never voted for him.

Also I never said Obidients have monetary greed, I wish you'd read and comprehend as you clearly have the capacity to unlike some other Obidients here.

lol. Medicine after death. He’s no more in your party Oga. Deal with it !

wellmax:
Sometimes I wish Obi will become president so we all can see how incompetent, undemocratic, selfish and the real tribal bigot that he is.

Overhyped hypocrite

🤣🤣🤣abeg oo, we already saw how incompetent he was in his 8yrs of failure in anambala that was why he was rejected by majority of Nigerian except the gullible ones that were swayed by his Muslim/Muslim propaganda not because he performed exceptionally well in tiny Anambala

wellmax:
Sometimes I wish Obi will become president so we all can see how incompetent, undemocratic, selfish and the real tribal bigot that he is.

Overhyped hypocrite

I can assure you that your expectations will disappoint you.

helinues:
Obi never believed in democracy right from the on set

When Nigerians were protesting against Abacha's regime wanting the restoration of democracy back to Nigeria, Peter Obi was busy getting appointment from the same Abacha meaning he cared less

In Peter Obi's 8 years as Anambra state governor, he only conducted local government election in his last year in office and that was even forced by court not that he wished to. Democracy mean nothing to Peter Obi

A real democrat should be able to contest party primary election for any position he might be seeking for but in Peter Obi's political journey, he has never participated in any political primary election before.

https://www.nairaland.com/8595229/peter-obi-never-contested-political

Obi is not Tinubu that went about begging Abafha for appointment even after MKO"s death. Everybody knows the truth now. Gone are the days when the entire nation relies on Lagos Ibadan Expressway newspaper for news. These days the internet is there for everyone to get the facts right. So you guys should stop fooling yourself.