JUST IN: Crisis Rocks Labour Party After Presidential Campaign Rally, Candidates Threaten To Scuttle Peter Obi Election (DETAILS)

JUST IN: Crisis Rocks Labour Party After Presidential Campaign Rally, Candidates Threaten To Scuttle Peter Obi Election (DETAILS)

Shortly after the flag-off of the Presidential campaign rally in Bauchi state, the Bauchi State chapter of the Labour Party experienced a leadership crisis.

Recall that Obi, his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the LP national Chairman, and other party stakeholders were in Bauchi State on Thursday to launch his campaign at the Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa Memorial Stadium.

However, in a sudden turn of events, a group of the party’s candidates held a press conference, threatening to leave the party over what they called mistreatment and marginalization by the party’s leadership in the state.

Aggrieved Party Candidates

Mallam Shabbir Duguri, the LP candidate for Duguri/Gwana Constituency in the State House of Assembly, told journalists on behalf of the aggrieved candidates that they were not carried along in the party’s affairs.

“You know that our Presidential candidate, Peter Obi was in Bauchi, but we as candidates were completely sidelined. Nobody told us what the programme was. We were not allowed to play any role before, during and after the programme.”

“We are the people at the grassroots. We have strong support base but the leadership of the LP in the State is not carrying us along. We don’t know what is going on in the party” he said

The candidates claimed that they were told by the Presidential candidate that he does not need their support to win the Bauchi State election because he has other more important people working for him.

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“Though we did not hear that directly from Peter Obi. But what happened during the campaign was an indication that something is fishy. We were not allowed to go close to where he was neither were we presented with flags despite the fact that our names as candidates have been displayed by INEC” Shabbir added

Another candidate, MK Said, LP candidate for Pali State Constituency, also spoke, lamenting that they had been neglected in the affairs of the party in the state, adding that they had spent their money to float the party in the state.

He claimed that N50 million was sent to the party’s leadership in the State for mobilization and logistics for the rally, but the party’s leadership in the State sat on the money to the detriment of the entire membership of the LP in the State.

He urged the LP’s Presidential candidate to look into their grievances before it was too late if he wanted to win the State election, and threatened that the Labour Party would not win if they were not listened to.

“We joined LP because of the good Peter Obi. But as it is now, we have been disappointed by what is happening. He should immediately look into the matter and resolve the issue. We are giving him four days from today to act or we and our supporters will go to where we are valued” he said

All other candidates from Giade, Shira, Katagum, Jama’are, and other LGAs claimed that the party chairman in the State is running the party as a private business, keeping everyone in the party in the dark about what is going on.

The 21 state House of Assembly candidates and those running for the House of Representatives under the LP said that if the ultimatum given to the party’s leadership is not met, they will be forced to abandon the LP for the Presidential election and direct their supporters to vote for another Presidential candidate.

They have, however, stated that they will pursue their ambitions of becoming legislators under the LP, having been cleared by INEC to run in the elections.

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