The Labour Party (LP) has responded after its 2023 Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, urged members to vote for candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2025 bye-elections.
“Disregard Obi’s directives”, the Labour Party (LP) urged members, saying, it is “misleading, mischievous and delusional”.
The Party’s response was made known via a Press Release signed by Barr. Julius Abure on Thursday 14 August, 2025
The ‘Papa, Mama and Pikin’ Party said, the former Governor of Anambra State has now become a “person affiliated to many political parties pari pasu”, adding, he is exposing his “desperation to preside over Nigeria”.
The Press Release titled ‘Bye-election: Labour Party on the ballot, as party tasks members to disregard Obi’s directives’ reads: “The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a statement by the party’s former presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, directing party members to cast their votes for another party in the August 16, 2025 bye-election. The party said that Obi’s directive is misleading, mischievous and delusional.
“The party is however calling on all our faithful party members to ignore this malicious directive and go ahead with casting of their votes for the Labour Party and their candidates.
“It is unfortunate that Obi has turned himself to an irony and a paradox in the Nigeria political space. He is now reputed to have elevated subterfuge in the game of politics and has of late been crying wolf where there is none. He has turned himself into “Uber” politician, not willing to take a position and stand by his decision. He has now booked a place for himself in the Guinness book of records as a person affiliated to many political parties pari pasu, all in his desperation to preside over Nigeria.
“Nigerians should not forget in a hurry that it was Peter Obi that created the crisis in the Labour Party which he is now citing as a reason why people should not vote for the party. Peter Obi and Alex Otti the Governor of Abia State hosted the ill-fated and illegal expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, September 4, 2024. He has also co-funded the crisis all these while and went as far as leading a protest match to INEC headquarters against his own party.His desperation to control the soul of the party has made him go haywire.A man that received so much goodwill from the party leadership but turned around to pay them with evil. This is why we have maintained that Peter Obi lacks the competence, character and capacity to actualise the vision of a new Nigeria.
“What Obi does not know is that Labour Party is on the ballot and our candidates are contesting the election in spite of all his efforts to strangulate the Labour Party. The party unknown to him has done everything within the law to ensure that our candidates participate in the bye-election and of course in all other future election.
“We are therefore encouraging our candidates, members and supporters across all the states where bye-election is holding to be focused and ensure that we carry out our civic duties by returning Labour Party and the candidates elected. Nigerians have come to know who Peter Obi really is.”
The 2025 bye-elections will take place on Saturday 16 August, 2025.
