The Labour Party (LP) has ruled out its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, from getting the party’s ticket to contest the 2027 general elections.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, on Monday disclosed thus on Channels Television’s Lunchtime Politics.
According to him, “We are going to do our 2027 without Peter Obi; he will not have our ticket.”
He emphasized that the party’s momentum in the last election was not solely because of Obi but largely driven by the EndSARS movement and widespread discontent with the former president Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Arabambi highlighted that the LP’s acting National Chairperson, Nenadi Usman, and activist, Aisha Yesufu, of are colluding with Obi, saying the party would soon expel them.
He accused Obi of sharing himself into three parties: the PDP, ADC and LP, insisting that he should openly announce his departure from the LP.
He said, “Obi has one leg in Labour Party, one leg in PDP, and one leg in ADC. If he believes he has the proficiency on his own to have seven million votes in 2027, we advise him to pronounce his departure from Labour Party.”
Indeed, Obi’s political stature rose after coming third in the 2023 presidential election. However, he has publicly backed the African Democratic Congress (ADC) but has yet to formally defect to the coalition platform.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
