Fresh crisis brews in Labour Party as Obi, Otti summon NEC meeting

 

Fresh crisis is brewing in Labour Party as the 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Governor Alex Otti of Abia State have summoned a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.

The controversial meeting is scheduled to hold in Abuja on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

The meeting is coming after last week’s Supreme Court ruling which terminated the Julius Abure-led NWC.

Obi and Otti, in a circular signed by the POMR spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, said the NEC meeting will be followed concurrently by an interactive town hall engagement with major stakeholders and other organs of the party at Transcorp Hilton.

Umar explained that the stakeholders listed to attend the meeting include the vice presidential candidate for the 2023 election, serving and former senators and senatorial candidates of the LP in the 2023 election, serving and former members of House of Representatives and LP House of Representatives candidates in 2023 election.

Others include all members of the National Caretaker Committee and NTC, all former governorship candidates who are still in the party, representatives of the NLC/TUC Political Commission, and all members of the former LP National Working Committee.

Meanwhile, the Julius Abure led committee is yet to comment on the development.

Recall the Supreme Court had recently derecognised the judgement affirming Abure