Abure’s Unfounded Grudge Toward Obi

As the 2027 general election approaches, the factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Julius Abure, appears to be focused on undermining opposition parties and helping the All Progressives Congress (APC) win the polls.

Rather than campaigning to win power from the ruling APC, Abure is either creating a crisis within the LP to weaken the party or attacking the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi.

Many LP members say that Abure’s actions forced Obi to leave the LP for the NDC, yet he continues to attack him as if his goal is to destroy the opposition instead of campaigning for his own party.

Last week, Abure advised the national leader of the NDC, Senator Seriake Dickson, to be cautious in his alliance with Obi and his supporters.

In a statement he personally signed last Monday, he said Dickson had learned from the recent crisis in the LP, praising the NDC leader’s alleged refusal to give all elective positions in the party to Obi’s supporters.

He alleged that Obi and Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, along with many of their supporters who won elections on the LP platform in 2023, have since turned against the party’s leadership.

“I want to say that Obi and his followers are ingrate and will never remember the sacrifices you made for them. It is even dangerous for the leadership of the NDC to wholly hand over the elective positions to Obi and his followers,” he said.

Since Abure was removed by members of the National Executive Committee of the party, he has become very bitter and has publicly attacked the former Anambra State governor.

Many believe he is the architect of his own problems.

Critics argue that he must be living in a fool’s paradise to think that his appeal at the Supreme Court will favor him when both the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal relied on the same apex court’s previous judgement to sack him.

Many have also advised him to stop allowing himself to be used by enemies of democracy as an agent of destabilisation.