Following reports by the Comrade Julius Abure-led group that the Lamidi Apapa faction had approached tribunals asking to drop all cases involving the party’s candidates disputing the outcome of the 2023 general elections, the crisis roiling the Labour Party (LP) intensified on Tuesday.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that Peter Obi, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, and the party are currently before the Presidential Election Tribunal seeking to nullify Tinubu’s electoral victory at the 2023 presidential election.
The Labour Party, on the other hand, said on Tuesday that a faction within the organization was plotting to quash Peter Obi’s lawsuit challenging Bola Tinubu’s election as president-elect.
This assertion was made in a statement issued in Abuja by Pastor Obiora Ifoh, the party’s acting national publicity secretary.
Ofoh said;
Daily, the evil intention of the breakaway faction of the Labour Party, led by the suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa continues to manifest, and just this morning, our legal team was confronted by the stark revelation that these men have advanced their plot by approaching all the tribunals where our numerous candidates lodged their election petitions arising from the recently held general election.
However, the Apapa-led faction, in response, dismissed the claim, stating that it was a ploy by Abure to gain cheap public sympathy.
A spokesman for the Apapa faction, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi, told Vanguard over the telephone that the attempt to distract public attention from the real issues will fail.
Arabambi said:
It is sad, unfortunate, and disheartening that individuals who have been stopped by a court of competent jurisdiction from parading themselves as leaders of our beloved party have resorted to cheap blackmail and subterfuge.
Abure and his cohorts cannot speak for our party, and as I speak to you, we have not filed any matter seeking to discontinue our party’s challenge to the outcome of the Presidential election. It is not true.