The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, will meet with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday in a move to resolve the crisis rocking the party.
Obi’s campaign spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja, saying the meeting was a continuation of the reconciliation process.
Tanko said the leadership of the LP led by Julius Abure and his NWC members would not attend the meeting, adding that it is not a joint meeting.
“For now, he (Obi) is only meeting with all the aggrieved stakeholders one after the other. Since he has had a meeting with the party itself and another with the TUC, the NLC is next. Later on, he may possibly have a joint meeting with everyone in attendance.
“Basically, he is just trying to look at all the challenges in the party and try to find a solution to them.”
It would be recalled that last members of the NLC National Transition Committee set up to take invaded the secretariat of the party with a view to taking over the control of party affairs.
A former NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar heads the committee put in place by the NLC Political Commission to reposition the party two months after the NLC rejected the re-election of Julius Abure as the party’s National Chairman.
Omar and scores of the NLC supporters had on Tuesday stormed the national secretariat of the Labour Party in Utako to demand Abure’s resignation.
The protest and threats to bring down the gates of the secretariat disrupted an ongoing meeting of the National Working Committee of the LP being presided over by Abure.
