2023 Presidency: After Collapsing Party Structure for Tinubu, LP Leaders Predict Zone Peter Obi Will Lose

2023 Presidency: After Collapsing Party Structure for Tinubu, LP Leaders Predict Zone Peter Obi Will Lose

  • 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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A shocking prediction about the outcome of the 2023 presidential election for Peter Obi in the southwest region has emerged

Ahead of the forthcoming poll, which is just 12 days from now, leaders of the Labour Party(LP) in the Southwest region have said the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, will not gather up to 1,000 votes in the region.

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Labour Party, 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, Southwest region, APC
LP leaders predict zone Peter Obi will record a major defeat. Photo credit: Mr Peter Obi
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Southwest Labour Party collapses structure, joins APC, predicts Obi's fate

The party leaders arrived at the conclusion just before they collapsed the party’s structure in the region into the ruling All Progressives Congress, a report by The Nation confirmed.

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They said the LP was not in the race to win any election but to garner money.

A leader of the party in the Southwest, Omotoso Banji, who led other leaders to join the All Progressives Congress(APC), described the LP as a shaky platform.

The southwest leaders of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, 2023 presidential election, APC, Bola Tinubu
Southwest LP leaders collapse party structure, join APC. Photo credit: The Nation
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Peter Obi’s Presidential Bid Under threat as Southwest Labour Party Collapses Structure, Aligns With APC

New reports confirmed the defection of the entirety of the southwest chapter of the Labour Party to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

As reported by The Nation newspaper, the leader of the Labour Party southwest chapter, Omotoso Banji, led a delegation of the party's leaders to Akure, the Ondo state capital, to officially collapse its structure into the APC.

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Legit.ng gathered other party chieftains that renounced their allegiance and pledged loyalty to the APC, include Omowumi Olosola, the Ondo Secretary of LP, and Sola Alabi, amongst others.

“Grace Found Him”: 3 men offer over N200k to boy, Yusuf, who stood in front of Peter Obi's convoy in Lagos

Three kindhearted Nigerian men have offered to give over N200k to the boy, Yusuf AlaBi, who went viral on the internet for standing in front of Peter Obi's convoy on Saturday, February 11.

The 15-year-old boy had become an internet sensation after a photo of him standing with arms stretched wide open in front of Peter Obi's Toyota Land Cruiser SUV went viral. Obi was seen standing through the open roof of the car smiling at Yusuf.

Social media users, influencers, celebrities and apologists of the Labour Party candidate attached positive meanings to the viral image.

Source: Legit.ng

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Esther Odili (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Esther Odili is a journalist and a Politics/Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng with 6+ years of experience. She Holds OND and HND in Mass Communication from the Nigerian Institue of Journalism (NIJ), where she was recognized as the best student in print journalism in 2018. Before joining Legit.ng, Esther has worked with other reputable media houses, such as the New Telegraph newspaper and Galaxy Television. In 2024, Esther obtained a certificate in advanced digital reporting from the Google News Initiative. Email: esther.odili@corp.legit.ng.