- Obidients: Abure is a failed Paid Agent
By Abiola Olawale
Apparently bolstered by External interests, a faction of the Labour Party led by Julius Abure has announced plans to expel the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, citing alleged “anti-party activities.”
The decision, revealed during a Channels TV interview on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, by the National Publicity Secretary of the Abure-led faction, Abayomi Arabambi.
Arabambi disclosed that the party will be holding a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to recommend Obi’s suspension, with the final expulsion to be ratified at the party’s next convention.
He stated: “Secondly, let me make it very clear. We are convening an NEC meeting where he (Peter Obi) will be expelled.
“You know he was on suspension before, before he now went ahead to do the anti-party activities. You don’t go and join a political party and at the same time, you put your leg in another political party. He knows it is so constitutional for him to belong to two political parties at a time. They have been able to deceive him to their side and there he shall remain.
“So, NEC meeting is going to be called shortly where Obi will be recommended for expulsion and that will now be confirmed finally at our convention in line with our constitution and in line with most political party constitution because when you want to expel an individual who is a member of your party but you know that is not doing things in tandem with your constitution, you go to NEC and you will recommend to expel him and now recommend the final expulsion to the convention.”
The allegations against Obi stem from his alleged involvement in a new opposition coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), aimed at challenging President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
Before now, the Abure-led faction of the LP had previously issued a 48-hour ultimatum on July 3, 2025, demanding Obi’s resignation over his coalition activities, which they labeled as disloyalty to the party.
But reacting to this development, many members of the Obidient Movement who took to Social media platforms to denounce the move, said everyone in Nigeria knows Abure is an agent of a known government figure who has lost the support of the Nigerian people and are now rooting for Obi in 2027.
One of the Obidients wrote on Twitter: ” Abure is an agent paid to destroy Labour Party. But they can’t understand Peter Obi and the Obidient Movement. We are many steps ahead. They play old strategy politics that has no place in 2025 Nigeria with the youths and people.”
