Yunusa Tanko, the spokesman for the Obi‑Datti Presidential Campaign Council, denied that the Labour Party’s South‑West structure had collapsed in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Tanko made the denial after a report claimed that an alleged Labour Party South‑West chairman, Omotoso Banji, had led some members to dissolve the structure because it “lacked the clout to win the forthcoming general election.” “It is wrong information. There is nothing like LP collapsing structure for anybody in the South West. Is there a different South West we don’t know about? It is just a creation of some disgruntled elements and irrelevant persons who just want to cause disharmony in our party. Nobody is decamping from our camp to anywhere. Our structure in the South West is still very much intact,” Tanko told The [Name of Publication].
In a separate interview, Festus Keyamo, the APC Presidential Campaign Council’s spokesperson, dismissed Labour Party flag‑bearer Peter Obi as a “joker” and claimed the party was living in denial. “The voting day is getting very closer and people are beginning to see the light. It is sad that the LP, which prides itself on wanting to change Nigeria, refers to members leaving the party as irrelevant. We welcome those who collapsed the structure into the APC. They have seen the light after discovering they were on a journey to nowhere with the Labour Party. I repeat it for the umpteenth time that LP cannot and will not win,” Keyamo said, adding that Obi stands no chance in the presidential election.
The Minister of State for Labour echoed a similar view, likening Obi’s situation to that of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who failed three times before winning in 2015. He argued that Obi would need more than luck to succeed, given his limited regional support. “At the height of the election, Buhari cleared the North West, North East and North Central, yet could not win. Not to talk of Peter Obi, whose support base is numerically weak in terms of voting strength. How does he want to win? He has only one and a half regions where the people are passionate about him. He only has the South‑East support, but the South‑South would be shared equally with the PDP. I said it before and I am saying it again: Peter Obi is a joker. Candidates are going to stadia to campaign; they will rather choose a drive to a crowded small space, especially places where your ethnic people are. It is disgraceful, to say the least.”
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