The 2023 presidential candidate under the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has voiced out reasons for his absence at the recent LP convention in his home state, Anambra.
The former Anambra State governor opened up that his mission was to rebuild a new Nigeria and not party.
While addressing Nigerians on X Space hosted by Parallel Facts on Friday, he opened up that he ignored the convention because the party leadership under Julius Abure failed to conduct wide consultation with key stakeholders of the party before embarking on the said convention.
Meanwhile, two factional groups respectively led by Julius Abure and Apapa Lamidi have been claiming supremacy.
Also, the Nigerian Labour Congress is against Abure’s leadership of the party.
Abure was, however, re-elected during the controversial national convention organized in Anambra State.
Obi stressed the need for the right thing to be done to salvage the party, adding that he is more passionate about building a new Nigeria than building a new Labour Party.
“We promised to build Nigeria, we did not promise to build a New Labour Party,” Obi said.
The party’s presidential flagbearer also threw his weight behind the call for a structure for the ‘Obidient’ movement.
It is the standard practice around the world where movements form themselves into blocs and are part of the political process,” he added.