Interim national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Senator Nenadi Usman has made interesting revelations about LP’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Usman, who acknowledged that Obi was instrumental to the party’s 2023 surge, said part of thsat was being convinced by the politician to defect from the People’s Democratic Party to the Labour Party ahead of the last general election.
“Even me, he convinced me to come with him to Labour Party. Convinced me and not just me, many people that are in Labour Party today were convinced by, ‘let’s join Peter, go to Labour Party’ because we believed in equity and fair play,” she said.
According to her, the party’s failure to zone its presidential ticket to the south did not also go down well with many who left.
“We believe that PDP should have zoned the seat to the south. But since they left it open and said there were no zoning and a northerner, they were trying to field a northerner, we felt no, it’s not fair. Though I’m a northerner but I felt it was not fair,” Usman said.
On the possibility of the politician rejoicing the party and contesting the 2027 eletion on its ballot, she responded:
“Well it will be too late actually for him to come back because if you look at the act now, at some point we close the register.
“Once we close the register 21 days before primaries, submit the register, the e-register to INEC, you can’t come from behind the door for us to register you and for you to contest the elections. That would be impossible, legally impossible anyway.”
Nenadi Usman emerged on the top scene of the LP following internal crisis that rocked the former leadership with Julius Abure .
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She became the caretaker committee chairman even as the Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that Abure’s tenure had expired.
His fate was further sealed by sack by the Federal High Court in Abuja and an order on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise only Usman’s committee as the legitimate leadership pending a national convention.
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