The Labour Party has told its followers to disregard its 2027 Presidential Candidates, Peter Obi’s directive instructing his followers to vote for the candidates of the ADC in the coming bye-election scheduled for Saturday, 16 August 2025.

The party in a strongly worded press release said that Peter Obi’s directive is misleading, mischievous and delusional.

‘The attention of the leadership of the Labour Party has been drawn to a statement by the party’s former presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, directing party members to cast their votes for another party in the August 16, 2025 bye-election. The party said that Obi’s directive is misleading, mischievous and delusional’.

‘The party is however calling on all our faithful party members to ignore this malicious directive and go ahead with casting their votes for the Labour Party and their candidates’.

‘It is unfortunate that Obi has turned himself to an irony and a paradox in the Nigerian political space. He is now reputed to have elevated subterfuge in the game of politics and has of late been crying wolf where there is none. He has turned himself into “Uber” politician, not willing to take a position and stand by his decision. He has now booked a place for himself in the Guinness book of records as a person affiliated to many political parties pari pasu, all in his desperation to preside over Nigeria’.

‘Nigerians should not forget in a hurry that it was Peter Obi who created the crisis in the Labour Party which he is now citing as a reason why people should not vote for the party. Peter Obi and Alex Otti the Governor of Abia State hosted the ill-fated and illegal expanded stakeholders meeting in Umuahia, September 4, 2024. He has also co-funded the crisis all these while and went as far as leading a protest match to INEC headquarters against his own party.