The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party has advised the
2023 presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, to seek another political
platform to pursue its presidential ambition ahead of the 2027 elections.
The Apapa faction, whose authenticity was recently affirmed
by the Edo Division of the Court of Appeal, said it had started shopping for
another presidential candidate ahead of 2027.
The spokesman for the faction, Abayomi Arabambi, made this
known on Wednesday in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH.
Arambambi spoke against the backdrop of the appeal filed by
Obi at the Supreme Court on Tuesday to challenge the verdict of the
Presidential Election Petitions Court, which reaffirmed President Bola Tinubu as
the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
The Apapa-led faction of the LP had distanced itself from
the decision of Obi and the Julius Abure faction to challenge Tinubu’s victory
in court.
On August 14, the Edo division of the Court of Appeal declared
Apapa as the authentic National Chairman of the Labour Party.
Speaking to our correspondent on Wednesday, Arabambi said
Obi should not waste his time pursuing an appeal against Tinubu’s victory at
the Supreme Court.
According to him, Obi clearly lost the election due to his
alleged mismanagement of human resources.
Arabambi said, “My advice is for him (Obi) to go and start
preparing for 2027. But it has to be in another party, not in LP. We are not
going to allow this kind of rascality to continue in 2027. We will look for a
fresh candidate as far as we are concerned.
“Obi is free to go back to APGA to run, not Labour Party. We
don’t want to continue accommodating a character who believes no other person,
other than himself, has anything upstairs. He is not a good manager of human
resources. That was why he lost woefully.
“Let me ask Obi who is accusing President Bola Tinubu of
certificate fraud this question. Obi claimed he has a B.Sc. Did he present the
B.Sc in his form? Was it not the school certificate he wrote there? Why is he
hiding his own B.Sc? That is because he knew they could subpoena the vice
chancellor or the registrar to come and confirm its authenticity.”
But the spokesman for Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign
Council, Yunusa Tanko, dismissed Arabambi’s threat, saying “They (the Apapa
faction) don’t own Labour Party. That’s why I don’t want to take issues with
them. There is no need to give these people attention.”
Also, the LP National Legal Adviser, Kehinde Edun, chided
the Apapa faction, saying it is the Abure faction that the Independent National
Electoral Commission recognised.
He said, “Do they have any authority over the party? They
are suspended members of the party. So, how can they determine who becomes the
flag bearer? These people have turned to comedians.
“The statutory authority to monitor and keep records of
activities of political parties is INEC. So, who do they plan to present the
candidate to? It is the same INEC, and the electoral umpire can only accept
nominations from the recognised National Executive Committee of the party. It
is also the duty of the national chairman to nominate any candidate.
“As of today, the recognised leadership of the party is the
one led by Abure and not Apapa or whatever they call themselves. We are not
moved by anything they say. They are just comedians and mere impostors claiming
to be what they are not. We know they will soon run out of steam. Nigerians no
longer take them seriously because they are beginning to see through their
games.”
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