The faction loyal to Abia State Governor Otti and the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, strongly opposed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s(INEC) recognition of George Moghalu as the party’s governorship candidate for the upcoming Anambra State election on November 8, 2025, giving the ongoing leadership battle within the Labour Party a new dimension. However, Lamidi Apapa, the factorional head of the Labour Party, urged Obi to support Moghalu, cautioning that if the party goes into the election split, it could lose at the polls.