Obi, Nenadi Usman Endorsed LP Coalition Meeting In Abakaliki, Says Ex-Lawmaker

A erstwhile House of Representatives subordinate and two-time Labour Party senatorial campaigner for the Ebonyi South Senatorial Seat, Hon. Linus Abaa Okorie, has said the precocious held conjugation gathering successful Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State Capital, enjoyed the endorsement of the 2023 LP statesmanlike candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and the party’s interim enactment led by Nenadi Usman.

Okorie, successful a connection helium signed, urged members of the enactment successful the authorities to basal steadfast against what helium described arsenic “the authorities of blackmail and extortion.”

He maintained that enactment members indispensable clasp the inclusive conjugation question already endorsed astatine the nationalist level by Mr. Peter Obi and the interim Labour Party leadership.

Okorie, who reaffirmed his committedness to principled politics, said helium has made idiosyncratic sacrifices successful the look of persecution. He added that the conjugation stakeholders gathering was a morganatic antiauthoritarian gathering aimed astatine uniting patriots crossed enactment lines for the rescue of Nigeria.

“It is important to clarify that Mr. Splendour neither speaks for the Labour Party nor represents the spot of genuine enactment faithful successful Ebonyi.

“His relation successful the affairs of the enactment has, regrettably, been defined by transactional tendencies that weakened Labour Party’s 2023 electoral chances successful the authorities and near a bequest of part and missed opportunity.

“The gathering successful Abakaliki, which has travel nether his attack, was rightfully called the Ebonyi Coalition Stakeholders Meeting. It was convened to domesticate successful Ebonyi the broader absorption conjugation already embraced by Mr. Peter Obi and the interim enactment of the Labour Party nether Senator Nenadi Usman.
“A conjugation successful which Obi himself is an progressive participant. It was truthful a gathering of consenting and consenting individuals drawn from the PDP, Labour Party, SDP, and aggrieved members of the APC.”

He said that those progressive are agreed by shared condemnation alternatively than bound by enactment labels. For anyone to question to artifact specified a gathering is, rather frankly, an effort to contradict citizens their cardinal rights to escaped assembly and association.

“If Mr. Splendour genuinely believed successful the enactment of Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party, and was not simply embarking connected different commercialized strategy with their names, helium would not condemn successful Ebonyi what our nationalist leaders actively participated successful and endorse.

“To bash truthful is to misrepresent some the tone and absorption of the question for a New Nigeria. My ain governmental travel has been 1 of sacrifice and principle, often astatine large idiosyncratic cost.

“The conjugation question successful Ebonyi is genuine, inclusive, and present to stay. It is not an APC contraption arsenic falsely alleged, but a corporate of patriots determined to align with the broader rescue ngo that Mr. Peter Obi champions astatine the nationalist stage.

“I truthful impulse each genuine Labour Party subordinate successful Ebonyi to disregard the distractions of blackmail and stay focused connected gathering alliances that tin present existent change.

“Our authorities and our state are successful urgent request of leaders who volition enactment radical supra idiosyncratic gain, and who volition physique bridges alternatively than walls.

“That is the tone of the conjugation we are building. Together, and with steadfastness, we volition reconstruct dignity to authorities successful Ebonyi, rekindle the hopes of our people, and beryllium erstwhile again that so a New Nigeria is Possible.”