A former Deputy National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Calistus Uju Okafor, on Wednesday, said the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, is the presidential candidate of a faction of the party.
Okafor said he had no hard feelings against Obi when he instituted a case against the party. Okafor is challenging the constitutionality of the Barrister Julius Abure-led national working committee of the party in court, which has nominated Peter Obi as its flagbearer.
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He maintained that the former governor was in the faction of the party whose leadership was allegedly not recognised by the LP’s constitution.
He insisted that he remained the authentic national chairman of the party following the sacking of its late chairman, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Okafor said he went to court on December 21, 2021, long before Obi joined the party on May 29, 2022.
Reacting, Labour Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Arabambi Abayomi, described Peter Obi as LP’s duly-elected, constitutionally-recognised presidential candidate.
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