- Safiu Kehinde
Former Anambra state governorship aspirant, Valentine Ozigbo, has accused the 2023 Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, of failing leadership test with his inability to governise and manage the party’s internal crisis.
Ozigbo, who missed out of the 2025 Anambra Gubernatorial election after losing at the Labour Party primaries, made this known during in a recent interview with Naija Unflitered.
Reflecting on his time with the Labour Party in a clip of the interview shared on X on Friday, the Anambra politician slammed the leadership of the party which he accused of being worse than other parties that they criticised.
“I was hoping that Labour Party was going to be the alternative. But what I now when through the party, they showed me that they were even worse than the parties we were criticising.
“Some of the people who were in leadership, including Mr. Peter Obi, for me, failed that test. of leadership because he couldn’t governise Labour to become that.
“This is why the losses in different states. ” He said.
Speaking on his defeat at the party’s primaries, Ozigbo alleged that he was sacrificed by the Labour Party despite his being Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s most feared opponent.
He recalled meeting with leadership of the party after suspecting sinister plot to sideline him before the primaries.
“Even in my own case, I was literally sacrificed. I saw this coming and I couldn’t believe it.
“Everybody expected me to be the candidate of Labour Party.
“When I saw that happening, I engaged. I reached out. I appealed.
“The only person Soludo was scared of was me. The only person that would have led Labour to win was me.
“Even the leadership. Congress was held and everybody who were on my side were thrown under the bus in the Congress of Labour Party in Anambra State.
“I complained. I wrote petitions. When I saw what was going on, it didn’t make sense. I started even wondering are they being serious?” Ozigbo said.
While he had since decamped to the All Progressives Congress, Ozigbo also expressed his displeasure with the leadership of the party in the state.
He however acknowledged the party’s organisational structure