If handled improperly, the scuffle between the Labour Party’s Comrade Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions could harm Mr. Peter Obi’s petition to the party’s nominee for president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Following reports by the Comrade Abure-led group that the Apapa faction had approached tribunals asking to drop all lawsuits involving the party’s candidates disputing the decision of the 2023 general elections, the crisis roiling the LP took on a new dimension yesterday.
The All Progressives Congress’s Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu was declared the winner of the election after the party leadership loyal to Abure sounded the alarm about an alleged scheme by the Apapa-led group to thwart its ongoing challenge to the electoral process.
Pastor Obiora Ifoh, the party’s acting national publicity secretary, alerted the public in a statement.
The faction led by Apapa, in turn, rejected the assertion and claimed that Abure was using it as a ruse to get cheap public sympathy.
Comrade Abayomi Arabambi, spokesman for the Apapa group, told Vanguard over the phone that the attempt to divert attention from the important issues will fall flat.