Patrick Utomi, a prominent member of the Labour Party, has called on all parties involved to strive for leadership that will advance the party’s principles.
This was said by Professor Utomi in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday on the party’s leadership problem.
According to reports, the Supreme Court overturned an Appeal Court decision that acknowledged Julius Abure as the national chairman of the party.
The court maintained Nenadi Usman’s appeal over the leadership crisis and rejected Abure’s cross-appeal for lack of merit.
In response to the decision, Utomi informed the party’s supporters on Saturday that the surge that fueled Peter Obi, the party’s 2023 presidential contender, was the result of the work of himself, Wale Okuniyi, and former Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Ayuba Waba.
He underlined that they must support the party’s social democratic ethos.
“Let me remind stakeholders of the motives that brought then-NLC President Ayuba Waba and I, with Wale Okuniyi as ground engineer, together to work a process that produced the Labour surge which powered Peter Obi and the Obidients in 2023,” it said, as the Labour Party’s leadership attempts to rebuild its house and bring everyone together.
It was a statement of the urgent need to save Nigeria by opposing machine politics, which only aims to seize power. In 2015, we discovered that merely gaining power is useless unless a framework for collaborative accountability and common values are built from the beginning.
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We wanted to alter the trajectory of Nigeria’s electoral democracy by establishing political parties as forums for laying out a clear direction for the country’s progress, as Ayuba Waba adamantly stated in his speech during a celebration honoring my birthday on February 6, 2022.
“Those who are committed, competent, compassionate, and have good character should be recruited by the party we wish to form. They should then be shaped, trimmed, and aligned with entrepreneurial social democratic principles that prioritize people.” while aiming for quick economic expansion to lower poverty through job creation in a market that is competitive and socially harmonious.
“I never concealed my love for Scandinavian free market models, where health care and education were radically socialized, universal, and production-oriented, during the many hours of meetings I chaired in Ayuba Waba’s office at the NLC offices in Abuja.
“It is crucial for impact to find people whose methods are in line with these fundamental ideas of that third force we set out to create.”
