A strong political ally of Mr Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Chief Oseloka Obaze, has resigned from the party.
Obaze, a former diplomat and Secretary to the Anambra Government, worked closely with Obi as an adviser and party chieftain until his resignation.
He disclosed this in a letter made available to journalists in Anambra yesterday.
He said that he wrote a letter to the LP Chairman in Ochuche Ward 406, Ogbaru Local Government of Anambra State, immediately after the party’s primary election on April 5 and that his resignation took effect on April 6.
Obaze said his decision to dump the LP was to express his disapproval and protest the party’s conduct of the April 5 governorship primary election in Anambra.
He also cited the leaparty’s leadership crisis at the national level and stakeholders’ inability to reconcile the Abure and Nenadi Usman factions.
He said, “The processes, conduct, and outcome of the Labour Party governorship primaries held on April 5, 2025, Awkare, fraught with outright irregularities, bothering on withaud and criminality.
“It was not in tandem with the party’s constitution and espoused core values or true tenets of democracy. As such, I hereby disassociate myself henceforth from the Labour Party.”
Obaze also confirmed the veracity of the resignation letter, saying, “The letter is real and speaks for itself.”
He resigned from PDP in 2022, one week ahead of Obi and became his presidential placeholder in the LP.
He became Obi’s campaign manager in the 2023 general election and one of the prominent brains behind the ‘Obidient Movement.’
