{"id":174348,"date":"2025-08-14T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:47:08","slug":"obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections","title":{"rendered":"Obi Urges Supporters Not to Vote Labour in Bye-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has urged his supporters to back the candidates of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, during the forthcoming by-elections across some states in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Obi told his supporters not to vote for the Labour Party because it has no recognised candidates by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, due to the lingering internal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known in a post on his X handle on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The elections will take place on August 16, 2025 in 16 states across the country, with two senatorial, five Federal House of Representatives, and nine State Assembly seats available for voting.<\/p>\n<p>However, Obi advised his supporters, saying, \u201cKindly note that because the Labour Party has no recognised candidates by INEC due to the internal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI humbly urge every member of Obidient and COPDEM families to go out and vote for the coalition political party, African Democratic Congress (ADC), in their respective states.\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. Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has urged his supporters to back the candidates of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, during the forthcoming by-elections across some states in the country. Obi told his supporters not to vote for the Labour Party because it has no recognised candidates by the Independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[12622,3634,254,222],"class_list":["post-174348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-bye-elections","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","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>Obi Urges Supporters Not to Vote Labour in Bye-elections - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has urged his supporters to back the candidates of the African ...\" \/>\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\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obi Urges Supporters Not to Vote Labour in Bye-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has urged his supporters to back the candidates of the African ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T20:29:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T21:47:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195570.880945.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\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\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Obi Urges Supporters Not to Vote Labour in Bye-elections\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T20:29:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T21:47:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195570.880945.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bye-elections\",\"Labour Party\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/obi-urges-supporters-not-to-vote-labour-in-bye-elections\",\"name\":\"Obi Urges Supporters Not to Vote Labour in Bye-elections - 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