Don’t allow Labour Party collapse, ex-Presidential aspirant tells Obi

From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

A former presidential aspirant under the platform of Labour Party (LP) and Leader of the Rescue Movement for New Nigeria, Faduri Oluwadare Joseph, has appealed to the party’s presidential candidate in the last general election, Peter Obi, not to allow the party to collapse.
Joseph also appealed to the factional groups in the party to bury the hatchet and allow peace to reign.
Recall that the two factional groups respectively led by Julius Abure and Apapa Lamidi had been claiming supremacy to the national chairmanship which resulted in the re-election of Abure in the just concluded party’s convention in Anambra.
In a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna, the former presidential aspirant expressed worry over the leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party.
He appealed to Peter Obi to ensure that the party does not collapse, but remains stronger as an alternative opposition party in the country.
According to him: “Enough is enough! Let’s bury the hatchet and work together to bring good governance to our nation. This is a nation in my slogan, where we have everything but we lack everything.
“It is time to call off the fight, stop the factions and start a new party that can take on our responsibility of a true opposition party that will go ahead to rescue power to fix our nation in the long run.
“I still believe in Nigeria that someday, our nation will be the greatest nation on earth, not America, not Russia, not any other country, but someday Nigeria will be great and great again.
“These leaders, if they can’t sit and find a common ground and if Peter Obi cannot broker peace between all these warring parties, they should leave the party and let us the younger generation pick up the pieces and put it together for the betterment of our country and our nation.
“I am glad that finally the NLC, which is the parent body of LP, has since risen to her responsibility of not allowing Abure and the gang of other factions to destroy the only party Nigerians are looking up to for hope, for recovery and a viable alternative.
“But much more than that, I am calling on everyone involved in this party, especially all the stakeholders, that if they care about this nation and care about Nigerians, not just their personal and selfish interests; they should drop their hatchets and sue for peaceful resolution. They should stop all these disturbing issues we have been parading in public for over a year now and let us put this house in order.
“If Mr Peter Obi cannot bring the Party together, he should leave. I call on all well-meaning Nigerians with a genuine heart to rescue our party so we can rescue this nation. Nigerians need us.
“Labour Party is the only alternative party Nigerians are looking up to. Thus, we must move this nation from the old to a complete generation through a change of leadership.
“If the leaders of the Labour Party cannot find a common ground to come together, I beg all of them to leave the party and let us rebuild this party with the help of NLC and Nigerians from the grassroots up and we will stand to challenge anyone, any government by 2027.”