Labour Party Heading Towards Extinction – Osuntokun
Former Director General, Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has said the Labour Party (LP) is heading towards extinction.
He suggested that the powers that be have succeeded in using some individuals to destabilise the Labour Party.
Osuntokun, while speaking on Arise News, noted that Peter Obi was a product of the Obidient movement and not the Labour Party.
He believes that had the Nigerian constitution allowed for independent candidacy, Peter Obi would not have engaged himself with a party such as LP.
“We know a party as such is heading towards extinction. But it’s not peculiar or unexpected. Many parties exist only on paper; the Labour Party was one of them before Peter Obi breathed life into it,” he said.
“Though they have something that works for them, they have a nuisance value.
“If any other party, for instance, the party in power, wants to destabilise any other party, they’re there to be used, and they’ve been doing that.
“It’s a pity that the Nigerian constitution does not permit independent candidacy. If the constitution permitted independent candidacy, that is what Obi would have done,” he stated.
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