The Labour Party (LP) has called on Nigerians to ignore reports suggesting the party is pursuing a merger with any political entity.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Bring to mind that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, earlier called on opposition parties to form a merger and save Nigeria from slipping into a one-party state.
Ifoh maintained that it is purely a news item twisted and sensationalised by a section of the media to embarrass the party.
His words: “In my reaction, I said that it was only a proposal that every Nigerian should be interested in making democracy work and that what we have presently is an autocracy.
“There was nowhere in the response that the purported merger between LP and PDP was mentioned,” he said.
Ifoh emphasized that LP had just concluded the 2023 general election episode and a post-mortem was yet to be held.
He added that the way forward for the party had not been discussed, “When we do, Nigerians will be properly informed,” he said.
|Vanguard
