{"id":66424,"date":"2025-05-23T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66424"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:27:18","slug":"okafor-quits-lp-says-obi-cant-govern-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/23\/okafor-quits-lp-says-obi-cant-govern-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Okafor Quits LP, Says Obi Can\u2019t Govern Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Factional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, has announced his resignation from the party, declaring that its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, lacks the capacity to govern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Okafor cited the party\u2019s lingering leadership crisis and Obi\u2019s alleged failure to address internal issues as key reasons for his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had carefully looked at what is happening in the Labour Party, including the crises that have been going on for seven years, and wondered how long it will continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Okafor claimed to be leaving with over five million supporters. \u201cI hereby stand today to announce to Nigerians and all the Labour Party faithful who are under my own faction that we are pulling out today as a team,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>He announced the formation of a new movement: Team Wazobia Nigeria, adding, \u201cThe crisis has come to a point where it\u2019s no longer healthy in the Labour Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a stinging criticism of Obi, he said, \u201cWhen His Excellency Peter Obi joined us in 2022, what did he do? He supported Abure, who has become his archenemy today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe supported him in everything he did despite the warning by our former National Treasurer, Ms. Oluchi Opara, about his several embezzlements of Labour Party money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his final verdict, Okafor said, \u201cThis is the time for reality. So, if he can\u2019t govern the Labour Party, for me, he can\u2019t govern Nigeria. And that is why I have to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okafor also ruled out any return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying, \u201cYou can see their governors and National Assembly members defecting every day into APC. What it means is that APC is the appealing party as of today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Factional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Callistus Okafor, has announced his resignation from the party, declaring that its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, lacks the capacity to govern Nigeria. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Okafor cited the party\u2019s lingering leadership crisis and Obi\u2019s alleged failure to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66426,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions\/66426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}