Peter Obi Cannot Return To Labour Party – Nenadi Usman

Peter Obi

The Labour Party’s interim national chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, has declared that Peter Obi cannot return to the party. She recently had her say during an interview with Arise TV, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Revealing that Obi would be legally barred from contesting the 2027 election on the party’s platform, she cited strict membership registration deadlines under the Electoral Act.

Usman added that Labour Party’s register would be closed 21 days before its primaries and submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Her words, “Well it will be too late actually for him to come back because if you look at the act now, at some point we close the register.

Once we close the register 21 days before primaries, submit the register, the e-register to INEC, you can’t come from behind the door for us to register you and for you to contest the elections. That would be impossible, legally impossible anyway.

Even me, he convinced me to come with him to Labour Party. Convinced me and not just me, many people that are in Labour Party today were convinced by, let’s join Peter, go to Labour Party because we believed in equity and fair play.

We believe that PDP should have zoned the seat to the south. But since they left it open and said there were no zoning and a northerner, they were trying to field a northerner, we felt no, it’s not fair. Though I’m a northerner but I felt it was not fair.”

WOW.