Peter Obi Behind Party’s Crisis: Apapa

Obi’s Lack of Respect for the Rule of Law, Responsible.

The acting National Chairman of the crisis-ridden Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Apapa, has said that the lack of respect for the rule of law by the Presidential candidate of the party in the February election, Mr Peter Obi was responsible for the leadership crisis rocking the party.

He said that the leadership crisis would not have erupted if Obi had withdrawn recognition from the suspended National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure, based on the order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.

Apapa, however, asked Obi to wade into the dispute objectively to amicably resolve the crisis. Apapa, at a media briefing after his attack at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Wednesday, demanded that Obi be unbiased to resolve the disputed chairmanship tussle.

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At the media briefing attended by the party’s Deputy National Chairman in the North, Mike Ayuba Auta, National Publicity Secretary, Olufemi Abayomi Arabambi and one of the women leaders Mrs Rukayat Umar. Apapa said that what happened at the Presidential Court in which fracas Court out in the presence of Peter Obi was disgraceful and a test of Obi’s leadership quality.

Peter Obi Behind Party’s Crisis: Apapa

Apapa said the leadership crisis would have been put behind them if Obi had respected the Federal Capital Territory High Court, which ordered Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as National Officers of the party over their indictment for forgery and perjury.

Tracing the genesis of the leadership crisis, Apapa said that immediately after the order of the Court was served on the country, he was unanimously selected in an acting capacity as the National Chairman of the party.

He said that it was wrong for Obi to be according to respect to Abure despite the order of the Court and as a presidential candidate seeking justice from the same Court of law.

On the court receipt of 500 million Naira from external forces to destabilize the party, Apapa denied receiving any money or being influenced by anybody or any group to work against the party.

He, therefore, appealed to Obi to be open-minded, neutral and objective to stop the crisis. Also speaking at the briefing, the Deputy National Chairman of the Party in the North West, Mike Ayuba Auta, denied the allegation that the All Progressive Congress (APC) was behind the crisis, adding that the allegation was baseless and unfounded.

Auta apologized to Nigerians, who gave Labour Party over 6 million votes during the last presidential election,

adding that they should not be discouraged by the current leadership crisis and should be assured that the dispute will soon be resolved.

Labour Party’s Crisis, By Salihu Ali, Abuja.

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