BREAKING: Peter Obi confirms he’s leaving ADC, blames internal battles, division

Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in 2023, has confirmed that he is leaving the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

TheCable had on Saturday reported that Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the former Kano governor, would leave the ADC.

In a statement on Sunday afternoon, Obi said he is leaving the party because of “endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division”.

“Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them,” he wrote on his X page.

“However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.”