Valentine Ozigbo hopes to welcome Peter Obi into the All Progressives Congress (APC) one day. Ozigbo expressed this desire after leaving the Labour Party to join the ruling party.

Due to internal crises rocking the Labour Party, despite strong performance in the 2023 election, several members have defected to the APC.

Ozigbo attributed the party’s ongoing issues to the mass defection. During an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday, February 27, 2025, Ozigbo mentioned that he had informed all party stakeholders before making the switch.

He also informed Peter Obi of his decision to join the APC and expressed his anticipation of Obi joining him in the ruling party.

Ozigbo said, “I told him a few things, not about coming to the APC, but I would like to welcome him to the APC someday if he so desires. But here’s the point: I engaged with everybody I needed to engage as much as I could remember to say to them; here are the options. I had a meeting with Peter Obi. I said to him, I don’t see myself running for this election in the Labour Party, and I want to make a decision soon.”

“The day I mentioned to him I was leaving the Labour Party, the next day, I moved to the APC because I had to go and visit the Labour Party and say goodbye to them, and I told them to their face, you hear the things that have happened I am not proud of. Even when we had a congress in Anambra State, it was a charade, totally flawed.”