The Labour Party factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa, has given
grounds on which he’d honour an invitation for dialogue from the
President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
While responding to questions about if he will honour an
invitation from Tinubu for reconciliation talks on Arise TV’s Morning Show on
Thursday, Apapa said he would meet with the former Lagos State governor if it
was approved by the party.
“Before I honour him, I will consult the executive of the
party, so if they ask me to go ahead, I will do. If the executive says go ahead
it becomes our position.
“It’s not going to be my position. If they say go and see
him or we are going to see him, it becomes the position of the party not the
position of Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Apapa.
“All of us will collectively go and see him. That is if we
have the mandate of the house that we are going to see him,” the factional
chairman said.
The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party worsened on
Wednesday as the factions loyal to Apapa, and Julius Abure engaged in a fight
at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja.
The Federal High Court in Abuja had suspended Abure as the
National Chairman of the LP.
But the frosty relationship between the two factions boiled
over as Apapa was nearly mobbed by some aggrieved LP members on the court premises
but for the quick intervention of policemen, who brought the situation under
control.
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The commotion outside the court followed the battle for
recognition by the two factions.
Shortly before the court convened for the resumed
proceedings in the pre-hearing of the petition filed by the LP and its
presidential candidate against the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, the different
factions of the party engaged in a war of words over which faction was the
authentic one.
Reacting after the attack by aggrieved LP members, Apapa
debunked claims that he took a bribe from Tinubu.
“On the allegation of bribe-taking, it’s not true. If you
have evidence to prove, bring your evidence that I have collected money or
we’ve collected money from anybody. It’s absolutely untrue,” Apapa said.
The factional chairman also said the LP presidential
candidate during February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, deserved to be
exposed.
“On Peter Obi taking sides, I don’t want to expose him, but
he deserves to be exposed. Sometime ago, in one of the interviews he (Obi)
granted, he said he does not know me at all.
“I have been trying to cover him, but he does not deserve
it. The reasons are this: This is a man, during his primary in Asaba, I did the
opening prayer. And I was not a young officer. I was the deputy national
chairman of the party. I have been 21 years in this party. I have held many
positions in this party to the level I am today.
“Obi’s first campaign started in Benin. I was in Benin with him. And we used his aircraft from Benin back to Abuja–a chartered plane. Not only that, but when he came to Ekiti (Afe Babalola University), I led the team that hosted him on that campus. We were there for over two hours. I led the team to the palace. And he doesn’t know me?”
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Who is this old rented fool? Who is this folo-folo? Who is this animal on white beard. Who is this idiot without identity? Who is this hooligan called Lamidi Apapa?
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