Parties Merge With Labour Party To Boost Peter Obi’s Presidential Bid
Parties Merge With Labour Party To Boost Peter Obi’s Presidential Bid
The Labour Party and it’s Presidential standard bearer, Peter Obi have received a huge boost ahead of next month’s polls following a merger with the National Conscience Party (NCP), The Nigerian Tribute reports.
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The leadership of the NCP stated that the decision to collapse its structure for Obi was due to his competence and capacity to change the norm and place Nigeria on the pedestal of development and mobilisation of supporters.
Why we collapsed our structures for Obi – NCP He stated that the philosophy, modules and tenets of the Labour Party align with the NCP while also stating that Obi has “all it takes to earn the trust and confidence of our party.”
In the same vein, another political party, Nigeria Presidential Project (NPP) made an official declaration of its absolute support for the candidacy of Peter Obi at next month’s presidential polls, Tribune reports. NCP was formed in 1994 but was prevented from standing in elections until 2003 when it won a legal battle to be able to do so.
In the presidential election of that year the party’s candidate, Gani Fawehinmi, came fifth, polling 161,333 votes or 0.41% of the popular vote.
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