{"id":166250,"date":"2025-06-09T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:20:05","slug":"crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Labour Party instigated by Tinubu govt \u2013 Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Mr Peter Obi has accused President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government of being responsible for the lingering crisis in the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>Obi was the erstwhile presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra state governor made the accusation on Monday while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show programme.<\/p>\n<p>Obi specifically stated that the leadership crisis in the Labor Party was instigated and sustained by the government of today.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis is what you get, always, right? This is what you get always in Nigeria, because we now live in a country of propaganda and lies \u2013 and they manufacture it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem we have in Labor Party is problem instigated and sustained by the government of today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need to tell you when you have a party chairman who calls a state governor a dwarf and dwarf thinking. Forget about me, so it\u2019s not weak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, I\u2019m weak, but it\u2019s not weak. Is every other person there weak? So we\u2019re not sincere with ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou speak the truth and they call you names. And we now live in a country of propaganda and lies. They are trying to put problems everywhere, they want to even put problems in families.\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. Mr Peter Obi has accused President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government of being responsible for the lingering crisis in the Labour Party. Obi was the erstwhile presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 general election. The former Anambra state governor made the accusation on Monday while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[3634,254,222,945],"class_list":["post-166250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-tinubu"],"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>Crisis in Labour Party instigated by Tinubu govt \u2013 Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr Peter Obi has accused President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government of being responsible for the lingering crisis in the Labour ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crisis in Labour Party instigated by Tinubu govt \u2013 Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr Peter Obi has accused President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government of being responsible for the lingering crisis in the Labour ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-09T10:24:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-09T12:20:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749459080.335266.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Crisis in Labour Party instigated by Tinubu govt \u2013 Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-09T10:24:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-09T12:20:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749459080.335266.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Labour Party\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/crisis-in-labour-party-instigated-by-tinubu-govt-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"Crisis in Labour Party instigated by Tinubu govt \u2013 Peter Obi - 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