The South-West Nationwide Vice Chairman of the Labour Occasion, Abayomi Arabambi, has mentioned the occasion’s management, together with Alex Otti, has agreed in precept to assist President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.
Arabambi made the declare throughout an interview on Information Central on Thursday.
“Abure and Governor Alex Otti have all agreed in precept that we are going to assist President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a result of this presidency belongs to the South-West, to not the South,” he mentioned, including that the transfer is geared toward permitting the South-West full its eight-year flip on the presidency.
On the potential of Peter Obi returning to the Labour Occasion, a transfer reportedly being championed by former Finance Minister Nenadi Usman, Arabambi dismissed the concept, insisting it could not occur.
“Obi can by no means come again to the Labour Occasion, as a result of now we have an Treaty, even with Governor Alex Otti, due to the intractable disaster, due to what has occurred within the Labour Occasion, now we have all settled that we are going to assist the second time period and ambition of Mr President Bola Ahmed Tinubu solely,” he mentioned.
He additional accused Usman of performing in Obi’s curiosity, claiming her push is pushed by the idea that Obi might not safe the presidential ticket of the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC).
“Nenadi is simply an appendage of Peter Obi. She’s solely deceiving herself. She needs Obi as our Labour Occasion presidential candidate, and that isn’t going to work,” he mentioned.
“She ought to perish that thought, regardless of whosoever that’s sponsoring her,” he added.