Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, has alleged that the ongoing leadership crisis within the party is being instigated and sustained by the current administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Monday, the former Anambra State governor decried what he described as a political culture riddled with “propaganda and lies,” asserting that the federal government is deliberately sowing discord within opposition groups.
> “This is what you get always in Nigeria — a country now driven by propaganda and lies. The leadership crisis in the Labour Party is a problem instigated and sustained by the government of today,” Obi stated.
He pointed to instances of internal strife within the Labour Party, including inflammatory remarks made by party officials, as evidence of external manipulation.
> “When a party chairman calls a state governor a ‘dwarf’ with ‘dwarf thinking,’ you know something is wrong. It’s not about me. Maybe I’m weak, but are all the other members weak too? We are simply not being sincere with ourselves,” he said.
Obi warned that the apparent strategy of sowing division is not limited to political parties alone:
> “They are trying to create problems everywhere — even within families.”