{"id":73302,"date":"2025-08-15T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73302"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:24:37","slug":"lp-faction-accuses-obi-of-sabotage-ahead-of-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/15\/lp-faction-accuses-obi-of-sabotage-ahead-of-bye-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"LP Faction Accuses Obi of Sabotage Ahead of Bye-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), has accused its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, of attempting to undermine the party ahead of the August 16 bye-elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the faction alleged that Obi had instructed his \u201cObidient\u201d supporters to back the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in the polls, citing what he described as the absence of LP candidates on the ballot due to internal disputes.<\/p>\n<p>LP\u2019s leadership dismissed Obi\u2019s claim as \u201cmisleading, mischievous, and delusional,\u201d insisting the party has validly nominated candidates for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>The faction urged members and supporters to ignore Obi\u2019s directive and vote for the official LP flagbearers.<\/p>\n<p>The episode highlights a widening gulf between the party hierarchy and its former presidential standard-bearer, further exposing internal fractures within the LP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), has accused its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, of attempting to undermine the party ahead of the August 16 bye-elections. In a statement on Thursday, the faction alleged that Obi had instructed his \u201cObidient\u201d supporters to back the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73302","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\/73302","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=73302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73304,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73302\/revisions\/73304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}