The factional chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Lamidi
Apapa, has threatened to expose the party’s presidential candidate in the last
elections, Peter Obi.
Apapa had to deal with bitter exchanges inside the tribunal
over sitting arrangements on Wednesday.
He was booed by the party’s supporters as he emerged from
the tribunal, while his cap was pulled off his head.
Addressing the media afterwards, Apapa claimed Obi was
taking sides with Julius Abure, the LP chairman removed by the court.
Apapa also denied he had collected bribes from other
political parties to destroy LP from within.
“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.
“On Peter Obi taking sides, I don’t want to expose him, but
he deserves to be exposed. Some time ago, in one of the interviews he (Obi)
granted, he said he did 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 a lot of
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–chartered plane. Not
only that, when he came to Ekiti (Afe Babalola University), I led the team that
hosted him in 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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