Obi, Otti, Abure call separate NEC meetings

Obi and Otti said their meeting “shall be followed concurrently by an interactive town hall engagement with major stakeholders and other organs of the party”

By Kehinde Okeowo

Labour Party (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Abia State governor, Alex Otti, have summoned a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the LP party.

A statement from the Obi-led group said the upcoming NEC meeting which is scheduled to hold in Abuja on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, “is a follow-up to the Supreme Court ruling last week, terminating the Julius Abure-led NWC.”

It further explained that the NEC meeting “shall be followed concurrently by an interactive town hall engagement with major stakeholders and other organs of the party at Transcorp Hilton Hotel.”

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The statement further noted that stakeholders listed to attend the meeting include the vice presidential candidate for the 2023 election, serving and former senators and senatorial candidates of the LP in the 2023 election, serving and former members of House of Representatives and LP House of Representatives candidates in 2023 election.

Others include all members of the National Caretaker Committee and NTC, all former governorship candidates who are still in the party, representatives of the NLC/TUC Political Commission, and all members of the former LP National Working Committee.

Meanwhile, the faction led by the sacked National Chairman of LP, Julius Abure, has also scheduled its NEC meeting to hold at the party’s national secretariat in Utako, Abuja.

The development suggests that the party’s leadership crisis is far from over.