Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has assured his supporters that he will contest the 2027 presidential election on the party’s platform.
The former Anambra State governor made this known while addressing some of his supporters in a viral video circulating on social media on Saturday.
Asked which party he intends to contest the 2027 elections, Obi said: “I will still continue to run in the Labour Party. I’m a member of the Labour Party.”
Obi also blamed the crisis in political parties on the Nigerian government.
He said this while answering another question from a youth who was apparently disturbed about what appears to be Obi’s aloofness towards the party’s crisis.
He said: “What is happening in the Labour Party and the PDP is caused by the government, quote me anywhere.
“We had a problem in our party before, in the past. Yar’Adua was the President. I went to him then; he called the INEC chairman (Prof. Maurice Iwu) and told him I don’t want any problem in any party. We were forced to fix it.
“But today, in all the parties, there are problems; these are deliberate problems caused by the system. These are some of the things I want to clean up if I have the opportunity.
“Parties will function very well because you can’t have a system working without a strong opposition.”