Tinubu: LP disassociate self from letter seeking withdrawal of Obi’s suit
The Labour Party on Tuesday dissociated itself from a viral letter signed by the self-acclaimed factional national chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all cases by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the February 25 general election.
In a statement made available to newsmen by Obiora Ifoh, the party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, it partly read, “We urged the Tribunal in Abuja to disregard the antics by Apapa, who us a suspended Deputy National Chairman of our party.
“We are by this statement informing all arms of judiciary, including the Tribunals and courts to ignore the ignoble antics of these compromised suspended members of the party.
“We are also calling on the police, DSS and EFCC to arrest these enemies of democracy,” the statement added.
Ifoh, who later spoke on Channels Television’s Programme, Politics Today, alleged that Apapa is seeking to jeopardise the victory of Obi with his action.
“Approaching the tribunals to withdraw all the cases lodged by Labour Party candidates across the board is the height of subterfuge and treachery, and Nigerians will resist this ploy to plunge the nation into unnecessary turmoil,” he maintained.
“The leadership of the Labour Party is therefore calling on the tribunals to disregard any letter emanating from our suspended National Legal Adviser, Samuel Akingbade to the effect that all our cases are to be withdrawn,” he added.
