The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) appears to have deepened as the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party has called on the security agencies to arrest any of its members including its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, calling for an interim government.
The LP faction said that nothing can stop the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, as the next president on May 29.
The call was made by the National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of LP, Abayomi Arabambi, while speaking to journalists in Abuja after the Federal High Court judgment affirmed the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, and re-affirmed Apapa as the Acting National Chairman of the party.
The LP faction, who called on the Nigerian Military, the Inspector-General of Police and the DSS to immediately arrest anyone moving and clamouring to stop the transition process and May 29 inauguration, said that the call for an interim government was an attempt to throw the country into crisis.
Insisting that the Apapa-led faction was not interested in withdrawing the suit filed by the party at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Arabambi, nonetheless, said that the case filed by Obi and Abure faction challenging the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) wasn’t done in good faith.
Speaking on the directive by Apapa to the party’s lawyers handling its election petition to within 48 hours come to brief him on the ongoing petition, Arabambi warned that failure to honour the summons would lead to a change of lawyers.
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