{"id":235720,"date":"2025-09-16T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/olumide-akpata-speaks-on-dumping-labour-party-to-join-apc\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:44:45","slug":"olumide-akpata-speaks-on-dumping-labour-party-to-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/olumide-akpata-speaks-on-dumping-labour-party-to-join-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Olumide Akpata Speaks On Dumping Labour Party To Join APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>The Labour Party (LP) 2024 gubernatorial candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has dismissed reports of defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>Naija News<\/strong> reports that Akpata, in a post via \ud835\udd4f, described the reports of abandoning the Labour Party as mischievous and false.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Akpata maintained that he neither contemplated, discussed, nor effected a defection to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote,<em> \u201cIn the past 24 hours, a malicious, mischievous and utterly false rumour has been concocted in the dark alleys of social media, and unfortunately amplified by mischief-makers, alleging that I have abandoned the @NgLabour Party, the very platform on which I contested the 2024 Edo State gubernatorial election, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is not only false but laughable. I state without equivocation that I have neither contemplated, discussed, nor effected a defection to the APC and for the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of ever joining the APC.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In related news, the Labour Party (LP) has described the sudden defection of its former Lagos governorship candidate,\u00a0<strong>Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, to the African Democratic Congress<\/strong> (ADC) as hasty and ill-advised.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes-Vivour has formally joined the\u00a0African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking shortly after his defection ceremon<strong>y held in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos, Rhodes-Vivour stated<\/strong>\u00a0that the ADC\u00a0represents a strong coalition to rescue Nigeria ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement, LP\u2019s interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, said Rhodes-Vivour\u2019s action showed he had jumped the gun and failed to imbibe the political approach of the party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>Akeni argued that Rhodes-Vivour should have taken a cue from Peter Obi, who has continued to engage opposition parties without leaving the LP.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it was already a settled consensus within the LP that no single opposition party, including itself, could single-handedly dislodge the APC in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>However, he maintained that Rhodes-Vivour\u2019s choice to quit the party was not the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>The post Olumide Akpata Speaks On Dumping Labour Party To Join APC appeared first on Naija News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Party (LP) 2024 gubernatorial candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has dismissed reports of defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Naija News reports that Akpata, in a post via \ud835\udd4f, described the reports of abandoning the Labour Party as mischievous and false. 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