{"id":160510,"date":"2025-04-27T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:59:36","slug":"ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"Ignore calls to rejoin PDP \u2013 Labour Party chieftain tells Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Ayo Olorunfemi, has urged the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to ignore all calls to dump the party ahead of 2027 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Olorunfemi, also the LP Candidate in the 2024 Ondo governorship election, made this call on Sunday in Lagos, saying that Obi should rather focus on rebuilding the party.<\/p>\n<p>There have been calls in some quarters on Obi to dump the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>One of those making the calls, Mr Segun Sowunmi, a former PDP governorship candidate in Ogun, said during a television interview on Thursday that Obi\u2019s return to his former party would brighten the chances of the PDP in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Sowunmi said that Obi, who left the PDP for the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, owes much of his national political recognition to his time at PDP.<\/p>\n<p>According to Olorunfemi, who noted that though Obi was at liberty under the law to associate with any political party of his choice, said he needed to be wary of what he called dangerous advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that he has contested and he has seen the LP force, if he decides to go to another political party, it will then speak volumes of his intention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will tell whether he truly believed in the ideology of the Labour Party before coming to run, or he just wanted to use the opportunity of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it will now be left for Nigerians to decide whether Obi ,who got millions of votes under the Labour Party, can still be voted for under PDP or another party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Obi) must use his tongue to count his teeth. If I were he , what I will be doing now is working to restore peace in Labour Party and rebuild it<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should find a way to resolve the issues in the party and remain on the platform. He should remain in the party and restore peace.He should stay and resolve the crises he and others created in LP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Olorunfemi, while noting that Obi had the capacity to resolve the crisis in Labour Party, said that some aspirants shelved their ambitions in 2022 to allow Obi use the LP platform to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said that if Obi decided to dump the LP, the party would continue to exist as a strong opposition party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Ayo Olorunfemi, has urged the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to ignore all calls to dump the party ahead of 2027 general election. Olorunfemi, also the LP Candidate in the 2024 Ondo governorship election, made this call on Sunday in Lagos, saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254,65,222],"class_list":["post-160510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ignore calls to rejoin PDP \u2013 Labour Party chieftain tells Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Ayo Olorunfemi, has urged the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Ob ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ignore calls to rejoin PDP \u2013 Labour Party chieftain tells Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Ayo Olorunfemi, has urged the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Ob ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-27T11:02:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-28T17:59:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745742955.849768.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ignore calls to rejoin PDP \u2013 Labour Party chieftain tells Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-27T11:02:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-28T17:59:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745742955.849768.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ignore-calls-to-rejoin-pdp-labour-party-chieftain-tells-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"Ignore calls to rejoin PDP \u2013 Labour Party chieftain tells Peter Obi - 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