Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, he expressed disappointment that several legal cases brought against the party since the 2023 general elections have impacted the party’s performance.

Ojukwu, who has recently returned to the interim National Working Committee led by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, said that the party had elected 34 members to the House of Representatives, eight Senators, and 80 members to the state Houses of Assembly after the 2023 general elections.

“Now we lost all of them. I don’t think we have as many as five members in the National Assembly,” he said.

The former LP NOS said he chose to join the caretaker committee led by Nenadi because they are now the officially recognised leaders of the Labour Party.

He said, “I chose to work with the caretaker committee to help save the Labour Party, for the benefit of the party. I also want to use this chance to ask my colleagues at the national, state, and local government levels to come together and help rebuild our party.

“Another election is around the corner. We lost everything we have. They have left to other political parties. So I’ll reach out to all my friends in the other group to get together and work on making this party stronger again.

“The caretaker committee has formed a reconciliation committee. Let’s come together and talk so that we can restore the first opposition political party in Nigeria.”

Ojukwu, who was part of Julius Abure’s group, said there are no more factions in the Labour Party.

He added, “There is a court ruling, and since it is valid, the right people are in the correct positions.”

He urged Abure and others to drop the legal cases they have filed because they are not helping the party.

“Litigations are killing political parties. He said they’ve seen many political parties disappear because of legal battles, and the Labour Party is losing support every day, which makes him feel sad,” he said.

Ojukwu said he did not think joining Senator Usman’s NWC was a betrayal of the Abure group.

He called himself “the oxygen of that particular faction.”

“I’m with this group because of the verdict. But I never betrayed anybody. Rather, I was betrayed,” he added.