The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 is free to take a walk out of the party that he helped to lift from obscurity.
The Labour Party had finished in third place in a fiercely disputed presidential election in which the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu claimed popular electoral victory ahead of Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi.
It was LP’s best ever performance since it was registered as a political party by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The outcome of the three-way race was an indication that Obi who hails from the South East may indeed have a brighter political future waiting for him as one of the leaders of the country’s opposition.
Thus far, neither Atiku nor Tinubu has uttered a word about the events that are currently playing out in the Labour Party.
But the NLC embroiled in a war that it hopes would give it absolute control of the party’s political machine the other day clarified its position.
It said it will not stand against any move by the former governor of Anambra State to quit the party.
