Labour Party’s National Vice Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi, asserts that the party offers the best platform for Peter Obi to contest and emerge victorious in the 2027 presidential election.
Obi, who ran for office under the Labour Party in the 2023 political race, has come under pressure from a few members of his Obidient support group to leave the party which has been marred with crisis after the political race ahead of the 2027 polls.
Reacting to the call for Obi to exit the party on a televised show, Olorunfemi said true Obidients won’t recommend such action to Obi.
“Well, I will just use the word delusional, those ones that are pressing for such, they are delusional. Some people can overreach themselves, the true Obidients out there, they won’t advise Peter Obi to leave the party,” Olorunfemi said.
“You have the true Obidients, the student unions groups, the youths of Nigeria, the hardworking people of Nigeria, are tired of what is going on in Nigeria, people are tired of hunger, which political party will he go to? To go back to PDP, APC or to Where?
“This is a political party that is based on ideology, we are social democrats here. The people that put this political party up are social democrats and that is entrenched in the constitution. So, the only place for Peter Obi to win the election in 2027 is the Labour Party and we are preparing for that.”
He reiterated that the former Anambra State Lead Representative remains the best president Nigeria is yet to have, adding that by the grace of God, he will emerge the winner in 2027.
Olurunfemi is certain that the Labour Party will find its way out of its crisis more grounded, saying that the leadership of the party under Julius Abure will fight for peace and the party and visit the comeback of the Lamidi Apapa camp into its fold.
He said that the course of reconciliation is continuous and that Apapa and Abayomi Arambabi are still members of the party. Adding that the party might have an extraordinary convention to fill some slots that were vacant in its last convention.
