{"id":71173,"date":"2025-07-22T05:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71173"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:12:24","slug":"datti-attends-abure-faction-nec-meeting-in-abuja-as-lp-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/22\/datti-attends-abure-faction-nec-meeting-in-abuja-as-lp-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Datti Attends Abure Faction NEC Meeting in Abuja as LP Crisis Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party&#8217;s internal crisis took a new twist on Monday as Datti Baba-Ahmed, the party&#8217;s 2023 vice presidential candidate, attended the National Executive Council (NEC), meeting of the Julius Abure-led faction in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The party has been torn between two rival factions, one led by Abure and the other by Nenadi Usman.<\/p>\n<p>Most elected officials, including Abia State Governor Alex Otti and presidential candidate Peter Obi, have largely aligned with the Usman-led camp.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed, however, said his presence at the Abure faction\u2019s NEC meeting was to foster unity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here as a peacemaker and to reconcile divergent opinions,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted to attending meetings with opposition groups exploring a possible coalition against the ruling party but clarified that it did not signal his defection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to say I attended meetings discussing coalition attempts in Nigeria. Morally, if your neighbourhood invites you to talk about security, you must attend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIf they discuss matters outside that, you\u2019re free to return to your position. I remain a member of the Labour Party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Labour Party&#8217;s internal crisis took a new twist on Monday as Datti Baba-Ahmed, the party&#8217;s 2023 vice presidential candidate, attended the National Executive Council (NEC), meeting of the Julius Abure-led faction in Abuja. The party has been torn between two rival factions, one led by Abure and the other by Nenadi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173","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=71173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71175,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173\/revisions\/71175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}