The Labour Party chairmen in the 36 states of the federation have proclaimed that Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, cannot prevail in the Saturday election.
They claimed that Obi had forgotten about them while managing his campaign and mobilization efforts.
At a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Sani Abdulsalam, the chairman of the Gombe State LP and the co-ordinating chairman for the 36 States, said that such tendencies might have an impact on the party’s electoral success.
According to Abdulsalam, neither the party’s leadership nor its presidential candidate have ever respected the 36 state chairmen of the party.
He said Obi deliberately mismanaged their goodwill with the imposition of his members and other support groups that decamped with him in May 2022 to the party.
“Of note, Wednesday, February 22, 2023, was the meeting we had with the National Chairman in the party head office where a discussion was held about the logistics support for state chapters and National officers towards effective Mobilisation of our members for the presidential and National Assembly election on Saturday, February 25, 2023
“To our surprise, the National Chairman said the Presidential candidate has no confidence in all the 36 state chapters’ leadership but would rather choose to work with their cronies and support group that came with him,” he said.
According to him, the greatest shock from the National Chairman was that money for agents would not be sent to any State Chairman or National officers except those three NWC members, including a woman and that all state Chairmen and 19 other members already picked by Obi himself would be given monies meant for party agents and that an alert would be received by 10 pm tonight Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
“As of now, no alert has been received by any State Chairmen and information reaching us confirmed that money was paid based on ethnic and religious consideration because only persons of a particular ethnic group currently run the campaign of Mr Peter Obi in cohort with the National Chairman, has polluted the party,” he said.