By John Alechenu, Abuja
The Labour Party (LP) has alleged that internal sabotage and poor organisational planning under the leadership of Julius Abure contributed to its defeat in the 2023 presidential election.
Speaking on Friday in Abuja, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ken Asogwa, claimed that the former leadership misled the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, into believing the party had a nationwide structure capable of protecting its votes.
According to Asogwa, the leadership at the time claimed the Labour Party had agents in all 186,449 polling units across the country, but the reality on election day was different.
“In 2023, we lost the election because we did not have a structure. That is the truth. Even when we claimed to have won, we went to court, litigated up to the Supreme Court, and the court told us that we did not win because we were unable to validate the claim,” he said.
