The Labour Party has on Thursday, said it has no plan to merge with the Peoples Democratic Party in order to take over power from the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections.
This is coming two days after PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, suggested that opposition parties need to merge to defeat the ruling APC in the next presidential poll.
But LP spokesman, Obiora Ifoh in a statement on Thursday said the party had not discussed any merger
According to him what Atiku said “was only a proposal and every Nigerian should be interested in making democracy work in Nigeria and that what we have presently is an autocracy”.
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He said, “there was nowhere in the response that the purported merger between LP and PDP was mentioned”.
