{"id":193203,"date":"2026-02-01T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:19:05","slug":"2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti","title":{"rendered":"2027: Labour Party already in coalition \u2013 Gov Otti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti has declared that the Labour Party, LP, will never join any coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Otti, the Labour Party is already a coalition on its own comprising the Nigerian workers and people of progressive minds.<\/p>\n<p>Otti, who addressed journalists after the Labour Party\u2019s national executive committee meeting in Abuja on Saturday, said that there is no plan to join any coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabour is already a coalition. This is the coalition of Nigerian workers and people who are progressive like-minded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I know when people talk about joining another coalition. We have no such plans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The LP NEC meeting comes a fews days after the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja affirmed the removal of Julius Abure as the party\u2019s national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was also ordered by the Court to recognize the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee as the party\u2019s lawful leadership.<\/p>\n<p>And the Abia State governor confirmed this on Saturday, saying that the electoral umpire had obeyed the court order by removing the name of Abure from its website and had replaced it with Mrs. Usman.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abure had described the court ruling as unacceptable, vowing to approach the Court of Appeal to seek redress.<\/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. Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti has declared that the Labour Party, LP, will never join any coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections. According to Otti, the Labour Party is already a coalition on its own comprising the Nigerian workers and people of progressive minds. Otti, who addressed journalists after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,2660],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-nigeria"],"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: Labour Party already in coalition \u2013 Gov Otti - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti has declared that the Labour Party, LP, will never join any coalition ahead of the 20 ...\" \/>\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\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Labour Party already in coalition \u2013 Gov Otti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti has declared that the Labour Party, LP, will never join any coalition ahead of the 20 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T16:08:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T17:19:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1769966319.35072.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Labour Party already in coalition \u2013 Gov Otti\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-01T16:08:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-01T17:19:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1769966319.35072.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-labour-party-already-in-coalition-gov-otti\",\"name\":\"2027: Labour Party already in coalition \u2013 Gov Otti - 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