Labour Party withdraws automatic tickets for Obi, Otti
The Labour Party has said its presidential ticket for the 2027 election is no longer reserved for its former candidate, Peter Obi.
The party also ruled out an automatic second-term ticket for the Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, on the party’s platform, saying that the seat will be open to other aspirants.
The national chairman of the party, Julius Abure disclosed this during a press briefing after the party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Monday.
The party had, at its national convention in Nnewi, Anambra State adopted Peter Obi as its sole candidate for the office in the next poll.
It also ceded the second term ticket to Otti for the next Abia State governorship election.
But Abure said the 2027 presidential ticket was now open to all qualified Nigerians.
He said: “NEC in session also reviewed the decision of the National Convention to reserve its Presidential and Governorship tickets for Peter Gregory Obi and Alex Otti, respectively.
“Consequently, all party tickets from the Presidency to the House of Assemblies are open to all qualified Nigerians.”
The chairman added that the Abia governor does not have the power to convene a stakeholders’ meeting that produced a caretaker committee chaired by a former minister of finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.
