{"id":177936,"date":"2025-09-08T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:19:34","slug":"2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate","title":{"rendered":"2027 Peter Obi Will Not Be LP Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, on Monday declared that the party has three possible names to consider as its presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Arabambi said he can\u2019t reveal the names of the individuals now because they would be kidnapped and Labour Party would have no presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Lunchtime Politics, Arabambi disclosed that Peter Obi would not be Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe are going to do our 2027 without Peter Obi, he will not have our ticket. If he likes let him be promoting Nenadi Usman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know their agenda which is to make sure that Nigeria turns to South-East and that is not going to be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of southeasterners in the administration of Tinubu, a lot in Buhari\u2019s administration, and even Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you ever seen any one of them moving in this way as agents of destruction?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the Obidient members of Obi that are giving Nigeria a hell of a problem and I wish them well in their coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we begin to mention names but I know we have one from the South-West, one from the South-South, and one from the South-East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur deputy candidate is from South-South and a woman with a reputation but I\u2019m not going to mention her name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a discussion right now with them to know the direction that we are going but not like these political extremists like Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we mention their names, I can assure you that they are going to kidnap them because some people are just determined to kill Labour Party as we did not allow them to hijack the party for political insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that they will go and kidnap them and we will not have a candidate, that\u2019s why we have to keep it under wrap.\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. Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, on Monday declared that the party has three possible names to consider as its presidential candidate in 2027. Arabambi said he can\u2019t reveal the names of the individuals now because they would be kidnapped and Labour Party would have no presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[11501,5506,254,222],"class_list":["post-177936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-arabambi","tag-lp","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>2027 Peter Obi Will Not Be LP Presidential Candidate - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, on Monday declared that the party has ...\" \/>\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\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027 Peter Obi Will Not Be LP Presidential Candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, on Monday declared that the party has ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-08T15:57:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-08T17:19:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757339569.67461.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=\"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\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027 Peter Obi Will Not Be LP Presidential Candidate\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-08T15:57:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-08T17:19:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\"},\"wordCount\":340,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757339569.67461.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Arabambi\",\"LP\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-peter-obi-will-not-be-lp-presidential-candidate\",\"name\":\"2027 Peter Obi Will Not Be LP Presidential Candidate - 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