{"id":352740,"date":"2025-01-17T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=352740"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:29:24","slug":"labour-party-reacts-to-reports-of-gov-ottis-planned-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/17\/labour-party-reacts-to-reports-of-gov-ottis-planned-defection-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party reacts to reports of Gov Otti\u2019s planned defection to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Reports have emerged in the media in recent weeks claiming at least five first-term opposition governors are planning to defect to APC, ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Labour Party leadership has cleared the air on the purported imminent defection of Governor Alex Otti of Abia has of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/abia-well-unseat-alex-otti-in-2027-apc\/\">All Progressives Congress, APC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The party maintained that Otti has no plans to defect to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, dismiss the reports in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have emerged in the media in recent weeks claiming at least five first-term opposition governors are planning to defect to APC, ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The governors, according to the reports, are Alex Otti of Enugu, Peter Mba, Enugu; Sheriff Oborevwori, Delta; Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers and Umoh Eno, Akwa Ibom.<\/p>\n<p>While Mbah, Fubara, Eno, Oborevwori are PDP governors, Otti belongs to the Labour Party, with both parties currently locked in post-2023 election crises.<\/p>\n<p>Ifoh, in the interview, however, said the purported plan by Otti to dump LP for APC was farther from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a mere rumour and I hope it remains so. For us in the Labour Party, we are in touch with our governor, Dr Alex Otti, and he has assured us that he is not going anywhere, ahead of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that he will stay with us, irrespective of some of the issues which we are working hard to resolve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The national publicity secretary, who said defection from one political party to another was nothing new in any democratic setting, however, said Otti was not thinking about teaming up with the ruling APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe courts have come up several times to make interpretation as regards Section 84 of the 1999 Constitution and many people who had defected at one time or the other had been challenged in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if five governors are planning to defect, it won\u2019t be a new thing, as it had happened in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ifoh attributed the rumoured defection to the fact that some governors in the opposition had been having some challenges in controlling their states.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the speculated rumour of the only Labour Party governor had no substance or validity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are good in Labour Party and our governor is with us, and we are hoping that by 2027, we will have more governors in our fold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have emerged in the media in recent weeks claiming at least five first-term opposition governors are planning to defect to APC, ahead of the 2027 general elections. 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