Factional Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, Elizabeth Ativie, has blamed former presidential candidate Peter Obi and Abia State Governor Alex Otti for the crisis in the party.
Ativie, a loyalist of LP’s National Chairman Julius Abure, said the “illegal expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, Abia State in September 2024 which was called by Obi and Governor Alex Otti is responsible for the problem in the party.”
She made the remark while condemning the recent attack on Abure by Obi’s supporter, Precious Oruche, popularly known as Mama P.
“We want to state clearly that the problem in the Labour Party was created by Obi. It was him and Dr. Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State that convened the ill-fated and illegally expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, on September 4, 2024 for the sole purpose of removing a legally constituted National Working Committee of the party through underhand means,” she alleged.
Ativie further claimed Obi cannot be a good leader, “as he lacks the competence, character and capacity to actualise the vision of a new Nigeria.”
She added: “A leader who cannot advise or guide his followers properly, can hardly be a good leader. It is even more dangerous to entrust the whole Nigeria into such one’s care.”
