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2023 Elections: Disparities Trail Southwest Labour Party’s Rumoured Defection to APC, Loyalty Concern Arises

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 12:31 AM by Segun Adeyemi

The Labour Party says it has no connection or affiliation with the self-acclaimed southwest leaders of the party who collapsed their structure into APC
Mrs Remilekun Ojo, the Ondo state chairperson of the party, says the group of persons had already been expelled from the party before now
She confirmed that a few people attended the said ceremony, where they claimed the structure collapsed

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Ondo, Akure - The countdown to the 2023 presidential election has been filled with a lot of drama and suspense.

Emerging reports revealed that leaders of the southwest chapter of the Labour Party had pledged allegiance to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and its flagbearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Labour Party, APC — Labour Party chairperson in Ondo state, Mrs Remilekun Ojo revealed that the self-acclaimed S'west party leaders were expelled members of the party. Photo: Labour Party
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Leader of the southwest Labour Party, Omotoso Banji, on Monday, February 13, said to journalists that the defection to the APC was facilitated by the National Coordinator of the South-West Agenda For Asiwaju Tinubu, 2023, Dr Dayo Adeyeye, and other members of the group.

Labour Party disowns self-acclaimed leaders

However, a contrary perspective has emerged from the Ondo state leader of the Labour Party, Mrs Remilekun Ojo, who said the event that led to the alleged collapse of the party's structure in the Southwest was attended by just a few persons, Punch reported.

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Ojo also said Omotoso and his cohorts were expelled members of the Labour Party, and the party had no affiliations with them, Punch reported.

Omotoso, on the other hand, said:

“Labour Party presently is a shaking platform for anybody to contest. Labour Party is a failure platform for anybody to contest, I don’t know Peter Obi and I’m less concerned about him but I’m concerned about those who are celebrating the Labour Party mediocre within Nigeria.

“In view of this, we, leaders of the Labour Party in the South-West, have decided to leave the party because we have a lot of mediocre there and what they are looking for is money, they are not ready to serve Nigeria."

After Collapsing Party Structure for Tinubu, LP Leaders Predict Zone Peter Obi Will Lose

Meanwhile, the fate of the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi seems to be unknown in the Southwest region.

The LP leaders have predicted that Peter Obi will not get a reasonable number of votes in the region in the forthcoming presidential election.

The leaders arrived at this conclusion before they collapsed the party's structure and aligned with the ruling APC on Monday, February 13.

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