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NLC Confident Peter Obi Won’t Support Julius Abure As Labour Party Chairman

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6 months ago

Jun 1, 2024.

NLC believes Peter Obi Won’t Support Julius Abure As Labour Party Chairman.
Deputy President of the NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, stated that the union has not resolved its differences with Abure and the NWC.
Obi’s camp denied endorsing the Abure-led NWC after their contentious convention.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed confidence that Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi will not support Julius Abure’s continuation as the party’s national chairman.

The Deputy President of the NLC Political Commission, Prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku, disclosed this in an interview with Saturday PUNCH.

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Ndubuaku also refuted claims that the union had resolved its differences with the embattled party leader and members of the National Working Committee (NWC).

This development follows denials from Obi’s camp that the former Anambra State governor had endorsed the Abure-led NWC after their contentious convention that reinstated them.

The growing tension between the party leadership and Obi’s camp heightened last week when his campaign team announced that his celebrated visit to the LP secretariat was a reconciliatory move and not an endorsement as being peddled in a section of the media.

Reacting to the drama, Ndubuaku said Abure was merely leaving on borrowed time, stressing that there was no way a “Peter Obi we know” can endorse him following the strange manner he was returned to the leadership seat of the party.

He said, “There was no way that the Peter Obi we know can endorse Abure, especially in this present situation. You can’t tell a man he is not doing the right and still go ahead to endorse him. It is wrong.

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“We never believed it until I eventually met Obi himself when he was travelling out of the country the next day and asked me to meet him by 6.30 am. He just made it very clear to me that there was nothing of sort. His spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko, also said that much in the statement he released after Obi’s visit to the secretariat.

“You need to listen to what Obi is saying. He said he wants to make peace within the party. The only problem he has with Abure, in my opinion, was the fact that the man is not doing the right thing. He just wants the right thing to be done. That is all.