LP separates themselves from the letter asking for the dismissal of Obi’s allegations against Tinubu

The Labour Party has removed itself from a widely circulated letter signed by Lamidi Apapa, the party’s self-declared factional national chairman, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all claims made by Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, against the victory of Bola Tibubu of the All Progressives Congress in the general election on February 25.

According to a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday by the party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, on Tuesday, 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 spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, supporting the party’s position, and claimed that Apapa was attempting to undermine Obi’s victory with his conduct.

Ifoh claimed that Apapa is attempting to undermine Obi’s triumph with his behavior in a later interview on Tuesday’s Politics Today program on Channels Television.

“Approaching the tribunals to withdraw all the cases lodged by Labour Party candidates across 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letter emanating from our suspended National Legal Adviser, Samuel Akingbade to the effect that all our cases are to be withdrawn.

The party’s acting national chairman, Apapa, has asserted he is the party’s leader, saying, “Since the court had suspended Abure and other national officers, I am the next to take over.”