Acting National Chairman of Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa arrived at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Ffiday ahead of the resumption of pre-hearing proceedings.
Apapa, who was driven out of the tribunal on Wednesday due to an attack by Labour Party loyalists and threatened with more action if he returned to the tribunal, showed up to the Tribunal in Abuja on Friday ahead of Peter Obi’s petition hearing.
It was reported that in a bid to maintain peace, Apapa was not accompanied by any party loyalists from his faction. It was also reported that Apapa was spotted seated at the back of the courtroom as opposed to the area reserved for Labour Party representatives.
There has been an intense battle for supremacy in the Labour Party, with the factional crises threatening the very core of the party that is in a quest to “reclaim its stolen mandate” following its bitter loss in the controversial presidential election won by Bola Tinubu of the APC.
An order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory had restrained the Labour Party leadership of Julius Abure, but Abure and his loyalists have remained defiant acting in the office. However, the Abure-led faction fear that handing power to the Lamidi Apapa faction will amount to allowing the APC infiltrate and destroy the party, amidst claims that the Apapa faction has links with the APC.
Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi
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