The Abia State governor, Alex Otti, and the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have lost their automatic tickets for the 2027 election.
The decision was made during the party’s National Executive Council meeting held on Monday, September 9, in Abuja.
Following the meeting, the party’s National Working Committee, led by Julius Abure, announced that all party tickets, from the presidency to the House of Assembly, would now be open to all qualified Nigerians.
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In a communiqué signed by the National Chairman of the party, Abure, and the National Secretary, Umar Ibrahim, the NEC nullified the decision taken at the stakeholders meeting convened by Otti.
The NEC insisted that there was no vacuum in the leadership of the party after “conducting its National Convention in line with its constitution, the Electoral Act and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on March 27, 2024.”
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