Abure will not have support from Obi as LP chair, claims NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress has declared its belief that Peter Obi, the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, will not support Julius Abure in his bid to hold onto his position as the party national chairman.
Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, the deputy president of the NLC Political Commission, stated in a statement.
Ndubuaku also denied that the union had settled its issues with the National Working Committee members and the party’s embattled chairman.
The development followed the denial by Obi’s side that the former governor of Anambra State had supported the Abure-led NWC after their divisive convention that brought them back to power.
The party leadership and Obi’s camp were already at odds when his campaign team declared last week that his well-publicized visit to the LP secretariat was a reconciliation gesture rather than an endorsement as some in the media were claiming.
Ndubuaku reacted to the situation by saying Abure was only departing on borrowed time and that, given the peculiar way he was reinstated to the party leadership position, no “Peter Obi we know” could support him.
“There was no way the Peter Obi we know could support Abure, especially in this current circumstance,” he stated. One cannot tell a man he is not acting morally and then support him. It is off.
“We never believed it until I met Obi personally the next day when he demanded to meet me by 6:30 a.m. as he was leaving the country. He simply made it very evident that nothing of the kind existed. Such was also stated by his spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, in the statement he issued following Obi’s visit to the secretariat.
Listen to what Obi is saying, please. He declared his desire to bring harmony inside the party. He just had issues with Abure because, in my view, the man is not acting morally. He only wants what is right to be done. That and nothing else.
“The transactional hijackers and the true owners of the party will meet if Obi calls for one. This is so because anything goes if no one confronts you. It is the only approach to realign the party and its organisation.