Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has blamed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the ongoing leadership crisis plaguing the party.
Speaking on The Morning Show on Arise Television on Monday, Obi alleged that the internal conflict within the Labour Party was not organic but rather “instigated and sustained” by the current government.
“This is what you get in a country of propaganda and lies – they manufacture it,” Obi stated. “The problem we have in the Labour Party is a problem instigated and sustained by the government of today.”
Obi, who governed Anambra State from 2006 to 2014, decried what he described as a culture of dishonesty and political manipulation in Nigeria.
“I don’t need to tell you — when you have a party chairman who calls a state governor a dwarf and talks about dwarf thinking, that says a lot,” he said. “Forget about me, say I’m weak. But is every other person there weak? We are simply not being sincere with ourselves.”
He further lamented the state of political discourse in Nigeria, saying, “You speak the truth and they call you names. They are trying to create problems everywhere — they even want to plant problems in families.”
Obi’s remarks come amid an ongoing factional dispute within the Labour Party, which has seen parallel leadership claims and growing internal tensions since the 2023 general elections.
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