Peter Obi, Rauf Aregbesola, Atiku Abubakar, Aminu Tambuwal, David Mark at the coalition meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja-
Acting National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Nenadi Usman, has confirmed that the party has given its full support to its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to join an opposition coalition led by David Mark.
Usman in a statement on Thursday slammed the Julius Abure-led group within the Labour Party, describing them as “political jesters with no legitimate standing in Labour Party”.
Usman stressed that Abure and his cohorts are “neither recognised by the party nor by the law, having long been sacked by the Supreme Court of Nigeria – the highest court in the land – and suspended from the party for their serial acts of indiscipline and anti-party activities.”
She added, “For the avoidance of doubt, the leadership of the Labour Party, on May 26, 2025, publicly declared its full support for Mr. Obi’s involvement in the coalition efforts aimed at creating a robust political alternative to rescue Nigeria from the disastrous misrule of the APC. That position has not changed.”
The opposition coalition, which includes notable figures such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, and former Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi, unveiled the African Democratic Party (ADC) as its platform for the 2027 election. David Mark and ex-Osun governor Rauf Aregbesola were selected as interim National Chair and Secretary, respectively.
Usman urged the public to disregard the distractions and mischief from Abure’s faction, stating, “It is the remnants of the disorder and mess left behind by these impostors that the current leadership under Senator Nenadi Usman continues to clean.”
She said the LP leadership remains committed to its decision to support Obi’s involvement in the coalition efforts.
