Politics

2023: Peter Obi Movement Driven By Integrity, Atiku, Tinubu Have Nothing To Offer – LP National Chair

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3 years ago

November 4, 2022

The national chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has said that Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the party is the only candidate with the right pedigree to deliver the country from its present predicament.

He added that the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have nothing to offer Nigerians going by past records from the two parties.

“Atiku, Tinubu have nothing to offer Nigerians, the only person that has the pedigree to deliver Nigeria from her present predicament is Peter Obi,” he added.

The national chairman who stated this in Benin, Friday, at the formal inauguration of the party’s presidential campaign council, disclosed that the meeting was also a strategic one to plan for the party’s forthcoming presidential campaign in the state and also strategize for the the 2023 elections.

The National Chairman who congratulated members who made the list of the campaign council, stated that the Peter Obi and Labour Party moment is driven by integrity, competence, character, pedigree, etc, adding that all those who made the list were not found wanting of such attributes.

“The Peter Obi and Labour Party movement is driven by integrity; it is driven by competence; it is driven by character and it is driven by pedigree, and therefore, we took out time to examine the list of those who were going to be appointed as members of the presidential campaign councilor.

“If the movement is driven by integrity and all these factors, it means that those that will drive the campaign; those that will drive the vision, must also be people who are of those characteristics.

“Winning election will not be done in Benin City; it is not business you do in Abuja, it is a business you must take to your locality,”
he added.

Abure, who admitted that to defeat PDP and APC in the forthcoming elections would be a tough fight, urged members to work hard with a view to winning the elections.

He admitted: “We must also know the fact that we are fight political parties that are entrenched. PDP and APC are entrenched, and they also have stolen enough wealth at their disposal, because of this, we have a big task to drive this campaign and to ensure we win the elections next year.” (Sic)

While lamenting that APC and PDP have done huge damage to the country in past years, the national chairman said: “If you try a product for 4, 5 years and it is not working, common sense will tell you that you should change the product.

“We have tried the product of PDP for close to 20 years; we have tried APC close to 8 years, what could got is insecurity, we’ve gotten hunger; we’ve gotten poverty; we’ve gotten unemployment; we’ve gotten disunity in the country; we have gotten inflation, nothing is working obviously.

“What is happening in this country can best be described as a nation that has failed, and therefore, the people are desirous for a change. But nothing comes easy, we have to work hard for it,” he said.

Politics

PDP Issues Certificate Of Expulsion To Wike, Fayose, Anyanwu, Others

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4 hours ago

December 3, 2025

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has issued certificate of expulsion from the party to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and other 10 members earlier expelled from the party.

The party National Chairman, Tanimu Turaki, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen after the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

The other members, according to him, include the embattled National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the Legal Adviser, Kamarudeen Ajibade, former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.

They also included Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa, Austin Nwachukwu, Abraham Amah Nnanna, George Turna and Chief Dan Orbih, expelled during the party National convention in Lagos.

Turaki said that the original copies of the certificate had been dispatched to the owners through a courier service to serve as proof that they were expelled from the PDP.

“We have taken note of the fact that Nigerian law frowns on dual membership of political parties, and so we have sought to make it easy for them.

“Now that they are no longer members of our party, and now that the National Convention, which is the highest decision-making organ of our party, has expelled them, we have decided to issue them certificates of expulsion.

“So, when they go to register with other political parties in Nigeria, they will show these certificates as proof that they are no longer members of the PDP.

“By that, those parties will not accuse them of trying to belong to more than one political party,” he said.

He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, including the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services, and other government agencies, to take note.

“Very soon, members of the society will be informed via proper disclaimers that any person henceforth who decides to do business with them, any or all of them, does so at his or her own risk.

“They are no longer members of the PDP. They have been expelled,” he added.

He added that the NWC also reviewed some of the cases filed against the party and lawsuits instituted by the party, particularly the one that related to the “unlawful and illegal” closure of the party’s national Secretariat, the Legacy House, and the Wadata Plaza.

“The brief we received from our lawyers is that we are on sound ground, and that very soon, the law will take its course,” he said.

Turaki said the NWC was prepared to be saddled with the responsibility of performing its functions as the leading opposition party in Nigeria.

“We are going to provide a credible alternative to Nigerians. We are going to provide credible leadership to Nigerians by the special grace of God from 2027,” he said.

Politics

Adebayo Adedamola Wins Osun PDP Governorship Primary

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1 day ago

December 2, 2025

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Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola, popularly known as FRYO, has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for the August 8, 2026 governorship election in Osun State.

The primary election took place in Osogbo on Tuesday amid heavy security presence.

Announcing the result, chairman of the primary election committee, Humphrey Abba, stated that Adebayo secured 919 votes out of 957 accredited ballots, giving him a clear victory in the contest.

Explaining that there were 20 void votes following the withdrawal of one of the candidates, believed to be Governor Ademola Adeleke, Abba added, “The candidate that got the remaining votes is Adebayo Adedamola with 919 votes and he stands elected and returned.”

DAILY POST reports that despite announcing his resignation from the party, Adeleke’s name appeared on the ballot paper for the PDP governorship primary.

Party officials said the exercise was conducted in accordance with established guidelines, with accredited delegates participating in the voting process.

Adeleke announced his resignation in a letter dated November 4, 2025, and addressed to the PDP leadership at his ward.

On Monday, Osun PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi, had announced that the governorship primary slated for Tuesday, December 2, 2025, has been postponed due to leadership crisis at the national level.

But a faction of the party went ahead with the exercise in Osogbo on Tuesday.

Politics

Gov Adeleke Resigns From PDP

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2 days ago

December 2, 2025

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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial primaries of the party.

Adeleke’s resignation letter, dated November 4, 2025, sighted by Tribune Online was addressed to the PDP ward chairman for Ward 2, Sagba Abogunde, Ede, Osun State.

According to the letter, the governor’s resignation was based on “the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).”

According to the letter, titled: “Resignation of my membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’ read, “Due to the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my Membership of the People’s Democratic Party with immediate effect.

“I thank the People’s Democratic Party for the opportunities given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State under the People’s Democratic Party.”