Why Obi endorsed ADC candidate in Anambra bye-election

Peter Obi | File Image

POMR: The ADC candidate is the wife of the late Labour Party state Assembly member, Hon. Justice Azuka, who died in the hands of kidnappers in February this year

By Valentine Amanze

 The media team of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has confirmed that its principal is supporting the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Saturday’s Anambra State Assembly bye-election.

The clarification became necessary following the mix-up in the public space over Obi’s choice ahead of the LP.

POMR Spokesman, Ibrahim Umar, who made the clarification in a statement on

August 13, 2025, further disclosed that LP was still having an issue with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

His words: “As at the time of issuing this statement, LP has no candidate in Saturday’s bye-election slated all over the country.

“Secondly, the ADC candidate is the wife of the late Labour Party state Assembly member, Hon. Justice Azuka, who died in the hands of kidnappers in February this year.

“The leadership of both ADC and LP, as well as the Labour Party Senator and House of Representatives member, Tony Nwoye, and Idu Emeka, respectively, and the House of Assembly members in Onitsha South on compassionate grounds, deemed it fit that the capable wife should go ahead to complete the tenure of her husband.

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“Where issues of candidates are not in dispute, Obi always supports Labour Party flagbearers, as in the November gubernatorial poll, where our Principal’s candidate is indisputably Chief George Moghalu of the Labour Party.

“By this clarification, it lays to rest the confusion in the minds of the public, as the situation has not in any way changed Obi’s leadership of the Labour Party and his membership of the Coalition. We therefore need to underscore the fact that Obi’s mission for a new Nigeria is on course and Possible.”

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