{"id":161490,"date":"2025-05-06T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/labour-party-not-what-people-think-it-is-party-is-dying-valentine-ozigbo"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:22:47","slug":"labour-party-not-what-people-think-it-is-party-is-dying-valentine-ozigbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-not-what-people-think-it-is-party-is-dying-valentine-ozigbo","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party not what people think it is, party is dying \u2013 Valentine Ozigbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Valentine Ozigbo, an All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Anambra State, has declared that the Labour Party, LP, is not what people think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Ozigbo disclosed that LP is almost dying and soon people will start seeing mass defections from the party.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show, Ozigbo alleged that most elected members of LP want to seek reelection from other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI joined APC from Labour Party and I will make my case very clear, I didn\u2019t just leave Labour Party, I made analogies of what I think about these parties in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to do your checks and take certain decisions for posterity, for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabour Party is not exactly what people think they are, it\u2019s almost in its dying days and overtime, people are going to see this \u2013 how people are leaving the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is hardly any elected member of the party that I have spoken to that is intending to run for his election under the same platform, so Labour party for me is in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a decision to go into APC not because I\u2019m here to justify all the actions of APC, I\u2019m here rather as a catalyst for change, if this is the only option we have today; then some good people need to go in there and become an agent of change, I want to see myself as one of those agents and that\u2019s why I moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I moved, it became the trending topic of the time, even up till now. For anybody to say I went into APC without supporters is very laughable. Nicholas moved into APC a month before me and nobody said anything, but since I joined, I\u2019m already adding value to APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy moving into APC changed the trajectory. There are allegations that maybe Mr. President wants Soludo to come back because he sees him as an opponent of Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if that is correct, it\u2019s an inferior proposition, Soludo must have gone to whoever to say APC is weak and his problem is Labour. So support me in APGA so that I will come back because you don\u2019t want Labour to win Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPC is weak, Labour is strong, by me leaving Labour to join APC, it is strong today \u2013 and this is why I\u2019m fighting this battle \u2013 if you go to the real people in APC, they will understand the battle that I\u2019m fighting, they won\u2019t want this type of deal where Soludo is APGA in the afternoon and APC at night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he creates a confusion where you are not strengthening the party or helping anybody, so if you want to be a man, be a man and if you want to be a woman, be a woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Soludo wants to be APGA, be APGA \u2013 APGA is in the past.\u201d<\/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. Valentine Ozigbo, an All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Anambra State, has declared that the Labour Party, LP, is not what people think it is. Ozigbo disclosed that LP is almost dying and soon people will start seeing mass defections from the party. 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