The Labour Party leadership has maintained that Governor Alex Otti of Abia has no plans to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2027 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
The Labour Party leadership has maintained that Governor Alex Otti of Abia has no plans to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC , ahead of the 2027 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja. There have been rumours over plans by no fewer than five first-term opposition governors to defect to APC , preparatory to the 2027 general elections.
For us in the Labour Party, we are in touch with our governor, Dr Alex Otti, and he has assured us that he is not going anywhere, ahead of 2027. “We believe that he will stay with us, irrespective of some of the issues which we are working hard to resolve,” he said. The national publicity secretary, who said defection from one political party to another was nothing new in any democratic setting, however, said Otti was not thinking about teaming up with the ruling APC.
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