{"id":177601,"date":"2024-03-27T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=177601"},"modified":"2024-03-27T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:34:24","slug":"2027-election-lp-considers-automatic-tickets-for-obi-otti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/2027-election-lp-considers-automatic-tickets-for-obi-otti\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 election: LP considers automatic tickets for Obi, Otti"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Labour Party has reserved its 2027 presidential ticket for its candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n
This was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued after the party\u2019s national convention held in Nnewi, Anambra State, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The communiqu\u00e9 was signed by the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, and the party\u2019s National Secretary, Umar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe convention in session, based on the antecedents of the presidential candidate before, during, and after the 2023 general election, recommends that the 2027 presidential ticket of the party be solely reserved for His Excellency, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, the national leader of the party,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 read.<\/p>\n
Obi, who was the party\u2019s presidential candidate in 2023, came third behind President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
The party also recommended that the governorship ticket of the party be reserved for the Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti.<\/p>\n
The convention was initially set to be held in Umuahia, Abia State, but was moved to Nnewi, Anambra State.<\/p>\n
This is coming after the Nigeria Labour Congress described the convention as illegal.<\/p>\n
The political wing of the NLC also called for Abure\u2019s resignation as party chairman.<\/p>\n