Balami, Ex-LP Presidential Campaign Manager, Rejoins APC

Balami, former LP presidential campaign manager, rejoins APC. Learn about his return and what this means for the political landscape.

Isaac Balami, a Nigerian aviation expert and youth activist, has left the Labour Party (LP) and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), his old party.

During an address to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Balami—a former national deputy campaign manager for Obi/Datti in the 2023 presidential election—made this announcement.

Balami, who left the ruling party in 2023 due to President Bola Tinubu’s and his vice’s Muslim-Muslim ticket, claimed that the president’s government had shown him to be incorrect.

He said that the Muslim-Muslim ticket was the primary obstacle to joining the Labour Party, but he has since realised that it is essentially meaningless.

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“No president has ever worked with the Middle Belt like President Bola Tinubu,” declared the former National President for Aircraft Pilots and Engineers. He cited the administration’s accomplishments, pointing out that it appointed respectable Nigerians with a stronger focus on equity.

“That was not what I saw when I left,” Balami remarked. I see a better administration and a better party now. I see a prosperous Nigeria in a few years, and I believe our cooperation with the APC in its endeavour to save this nation is all that is necessary.

It is therefore necessary that I leave the Labour Party, having conferred with numerous leaders in Nigeria, the middle-belt caucus, my parents, and my close family. I’m going back to the APC immediately.