National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, says presidential aspirant in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, will be expelled from the party at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.

Speaking on Channels TV breakfast show Politics Today, Arabambi declared in clear terms that Peter Obi lost his place in the party the day he opted to join the coalition under the flag of the African Democratic Congress.

He frowned at Obi’s crafty decision to belong to two different political parties at the same time, contrary to the law and tenets of the party, stressing that Obi’s earlier suspension on the grounds of anti-party activities will now metamorphose into complete expulsion to serve as retribution to others.

Arabambi revealed that the party has resolved to convene an emergency NEC meeting where Obi will be recommended for expulsion, after which his official departure will be confirmed at the party convention.

“We do not have in our party constitution, as well as INEC, what we call a caretaker. Section 222 of the Constitution states that any political party shall not be headed by any caretaker; they must be duly elected. Our party constitution is in line with that of Nigeria.

“Secondly, we are convening an NEC meeting where he will be expelled. He was suspended before he went ahead to engage in anti-party activities. You don’t join a political party and have your leg in one party.

“He knows it is unconstitutional to belong to two political parties at the same time. They have been able to deceive him to their side, and there he shall remain.

“A NEC meeting will be called shortly, where Obi will be recommended for expulsion, and that will be finally confirmed at our convention in line with most political constitutions, because you have to recommend someone who is in line with your party constitution, you go to NEC, recommend and apply for the final expulsion.

“Obi is not a member of our party; he will be expelled from our party. It is not within his right to tell us he is still a member of LP and at the same time moving with what we call Yahoo Yahoo coalition,” Arabambi noted.

The opposition coalition on Wednesday formally adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as its official political platform for the 2027 elections in order to wrest power from the ruling APC.

Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party; former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai; and a former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, among others, are championing the coalition.