{"id":170658,"date":"2025-07-21T21:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:12:21","slug":"labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party Crisis Datti Meets Abure to Reconcile Factions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has initiated moves to reconcile warring factions within the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Datti reportedly met with Julius Abure, the factional National Chairman of the party, and members of his camp in Abuja on Monday, where he pledged to lead efforts aimed at resolving the lingering crisis in the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party has been embroiled in an internal leadership crisis since after the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The rift has threatened the party\u2019s cohesion and performance ahead of future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi, expressed support for the political coalition under the platform of the African Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n<p>However, Datti\u2019s intervention is seen as a significant step towards restoring stability in the 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. Former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has initiated moves to reconcile warring factions within the party ahead of the 2027 general elections. Datti reportedly met with Julius Abure, the factional National Chairman of the party, and members of his camp in Abuja on Monday, where he pledged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[3634,254,8516],"class_list":["post-170658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","tag-yusuf-datti-baba-ahmed"],"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>Labour Party Crisis Datti Meets Abure to Reconcile Factions - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has initiated moves to reconcile warring ...\" \/>\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\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Labour Party Crisis Datti Meets Abure to Reconcile Factions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has initiated moves to reconcile warring ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T20:59:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T22:12:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123435.462581.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\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\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Labour Party Crisis Datti Meets Abure to Reconcile Factions\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T20:59:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-21T22:12:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\"},\"wordCount\":153,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123435.462581.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Labour Party\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-party-crisis-datti-meets-abure-to-reconcile-factions\",\"name\":\"Labour Party Crisis Datti Meets Abure to Reconcile Factions - 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