OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL OF ARC. DR. PETER AGADA
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL
Cyrus Group Place, Plot C22 Cyrus Group Drive, Behind Gilmore Engineering Maityard, Katampe-Dawaki Extension, Abuja.
Phone: 08034633717
Email: pappcnigeria@gmail.com
Website: peteragada2027.ng
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WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE
Unveiling of Arc. Peter Agada Presidential Campaign, Labour Institute, LabourDirect.com & the Peter Agada-TMN Candlelight Vigil for Kidnapped Oyo School Children & Teachers, Bandit Captives in Kwara, Niger State, Borno
Being Press Statement by Arc. Dr. Peter Agada, 2027 Presidential Hopeful & TMN National Support Network, Delivered Today Monday June 8, 2026 in Abuja FCT
Fellow Nigerians,
Representatives of the national executive council of Young Progressives Party (YPP) present,
Representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Civil Society Organizations present,
Officials of The Movement Nigeria (TMN),
Gentlemen of the Press.
On behalf of the various esteemed interest groups with mutually connected political, union based and civil society initiatives captured in the heading of our conference paper, I warmly welcome you to this very important media conference.
To foster proper understanding of the various bodies described above and the meeting point of their objectives, indulge me to explain the core of each subject matter in as brief yet illuminating depth as possible.
1. The Movement Nigeria (TMN):
TMN is a nationwide congress of patriotic Nigerians, civil society groups and peer leaders from every walk of life. Membership of TMN cuts across tribes, religions, professions and the labour unions of Nigeria.
In many ways, therefore, TMN is a mother canopy which warehouses scores of social-political organizations of like-minded Nigerians, home and abroad.
These broad-based groups spread across entire Nigeria believe in me as a man whose time has come to invest his enormous accomplishments, decisive leadership strength, energies and steel of a youthful paragon into the race for the President of Nigeria; a faith that coincides with my own deep inner conviction a long time ago that I have more than what it takes to fix our country and stun the world with the brand new story of a brand new Nigeria. Today, I feel both honoured and challenged by such depth of trust to justify to our country their immense vote of confidence by vying for the highest political office of our land.
2. Departure from Labour Party
In their faith in me, the TMN network worldwide freely contributed millions of naira to back their conviction. When the party leaders approached me to support the enormous financial cost of its national convention, they emphatically made it clear to me that there was no encumbrance to anyone who wished to contest the presidential ticket of the party. After that clarification, the TMN facilitated my picking the presidential expression of interest and nomination forms for the ticket of the Labour Party. I was subsequently screened by the party for the presidential race on May 6, 2026, precisely eight days after its national convention at Umuahia, Abia state.
I need to emphasize that before the convention, combined with seducing persuasions by the Labour Party's national leadership to the effect that they would support me for the party's presidential ticket, I jointly funded the national convention of the party which held as scheduled at Umuahia, Abia state, on April 28, 2026.
I spent considerable funds to commence building my nationwide presidential campaign structures after a successful screening on May 6, 2026, an exercise which affirmed my impeccable qualifications to run for the highest office in Nigeria under the platform of the Labour Party.
All of these expenses went down only for the Labour Party to suddenly wake up from a memory loss on May 28, 2026, only one day to its presidential primary, to send a letter to me stating that they had disqualified me from the presidential ticket because I was from the Middle Belt of Nigeria. They claimed that the presidential ticket of the party had been zoned to the South, which was of course, a brazen cruel lie. Acknowledging this lie, the party's own screening committee report set up after the Umuahia convention affirmed and advised the leadership of the Labour Party that there is no provision in the party's constitution for zoning.
3. The Journey from Labour Party to YPP
I went into this detail for three reasons. First, it is for my large supporters in the Labour Party nationwide and Nigeria at large to understand why I left the party in search of another political party which reflects my beliefs, principles and commitment to truth and justice. Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to inform you that I have now found all these qualities in the Young Progressives Party. I pray that this will continue to be so in our journey together to the future.
The second reason I have taken time to explain my betrayal and exit from the Labour Party under its present leadership, which is evidently steeped in incredible insincerity, tribal myopia and repression, is this: I need to publicly put on record, without leaving the smallest iota of doubts in the minds of the TMN movement nationwide, that I was transparent and blameless in the temporary loss of their hard-earned financial contributions to my nascent presidential project.
The third reason for this detail is that as a justice and good governance advocacy body, the board of trustees and leadership of TMN nationwide has determined to leave no stone unturned in lawful efforts to recover their collectively contributed funds from the Labour Party. To prove my innocence relating to the missing funds before their eyes and sundry funding support stakeholders, I am constrained to cooperate with TMN and to proceed above suspicion by conceding to their lawful right to interrogate the swindled funds in court. To this end, court proceedings bordering on fraud and obtaining under false pretense has been served today at the instance of the TMN on the Labour Party and the party's felony confederates.
For further clarification which you may need on this, I will leave one of the operational leaders of TMN, who is here with us, to take your questions at the appropriate time during the conference.
4. LabourDirect.com
This is a ready-made, cross-sector digital platform which translates labour ideology to tangible development expectations and policy manifestos to manifestation of concrete, people serving social-economic end goals. This will be achieved by integrating policy, budgeting, and infrastructure planning for all 23 sectors of the Nigerian economy on one map, with one set of governing rules.
For brevity of this paper, I will crave your indulgence to elaborate on this during the question and answer interlude.
5. Labour Institute
The proposed Labour Institute of Nigeria is a non-partisan policy, research and leadership development institution to be established by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). It is conceived to institutionalize the ideologies of the global labour movement within Nigeria's democratic framework.
The Labour Institute shall provide an ideological baseline similar to "The Republican Institute" of the Republican Party and "The Democratic Institute" of the Democratic Party of the United States of America. The vision is currently in the pipeline for discussions with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its sister labour centre, the Trade Union Congress (TUC). When established, it shall be the unions' ideological substation and finishing house for designing and implementing the multi-sector digital platforms, programmes and policy blueprints of the LabourDirect.com policy curriculum.
Similar to the Labour Institute discourse, I will also crave your indulgence to elaborate on this during your question and answer break.
6. Candlelight Vigil for Kidnapped Oyo School Children & Teachers, Other Victims Throughout Nigeria
It is saddening that since May 15, 2026, 46 Nigerians involving tender school children and their teachers, in front of whom one of them was beheaded in horrendous bestiality, including a 19months old baby, little Christiana Akanbi, have been kidnapped by terrorists.
It is sickening that since then to date these innocent Nigerians have been sleeping in the jungle bush under the rains at night and hoping against hope of rescue during no less frightful excruciating hours at day.
It is necessary to rally our nation together to aggregate much more tangible and sustainable efforts to ensure that these innocent young children and their teachers are safely rescued and re-united unhurt to their suffering families. This should be the case, not only for the Oyo saga but for similar victims of abduction in Niger, Kwara, Borno and everywhere else throughout Nigeria against whom terrorists and bandits have continued to perpetuate this extreme level of human rights abuse. This is why TMN is holding this candlelight vigil in Oyo state this Wednesday June 10, 2026.
Finally, I wish to thank the NLC, TUC, YPP, civil society representatives and other well-meaning Nigerians for their partnership in the solidarity vigil for our abducted children and compatriots.
Thank you.
Long live, The Movement Nigeria (TMN). Long live, Young Nigeria Progressives Party (YPP). Long live, Workers and Labour Unions of Nigeria. Long live, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
ARC. DR. PETER AGADA 2027
Presidential Hopeful
Young Progressives Party (YPP)
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