Apapa To Replace Obi’s Lawyer At Election Tribunal On Wednesday – Abure

The National Chairman of Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure has accused his factional rival, Lamidi Apapa of delegating a lawyer supposedly hired by the All Progressives Congress, APC to take over the election petition of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi at the resumed hearing scheduled for next Wednesday

Abure made the assertion as he denied news reports that the court ruling issued by an FCT court on Friday ordered his suspension from office as he accused Apapa of misinforming the public on the issues.

In the statement made available to GWG.ng, Abure also accused Bayo Onanuga, the media director in the now disbanded APC Presidential Council of masterminding the crisis in the party.

He said:

“We have raised an alarm earlier of plots to scuttle our cases at the Presidential Election Tribunal. The latest development is that Apapa has detailed another lawyer procured by the APC paymasters to appear for Labour Party before the tribunal on the next adjourned sitting, being Wednesday May 17. Apapa also will appear as representing the party on same date at the court. This actions are geared towards creating the impression of a factionalized party. We are calling on the police and DSS to prevent the planned desecration of the court by these paid agents.

Besides noting that Apapa plans to foist a lawyer brought from the APC to handle Obi’s petition at the tribunal, Abure continued:

“We took special notice of the tweet by the Special Adviser to the President-elect on Media Mr Bayo Onanuga on Friday where he hailed the purpoted emergence of their hireling, Apapa and for properly interpreting the roles scripts assigned to him. In his tweet Onanuga refered Apapa as the man who controls Labour Party affairs and that “the order will send chills down the spines of Obi and his lawyers as Apapa wants all cases withdrawn. Interesting times.”

We want to tell Onanuga and his co-jesters that their celebration will soon be cut short and their laughter will soon turn to weeping.

“Let me at this juncture tell the likes of Apapa, Onanuga and their cohorts that Labour party is a democratic institution and you don’t use coup d’ tat to grab leadership, you don’t use the back door to take over the leadership of the party. That is what Apapa and co tried to do. Though we understand them because they have been paid by their paymasters. If you look at the statement they made yesterday, they were talking about the tribunal. Whatever they said is about the tribunal, and it is no longer news that these disgruntled and disgraced Labour Party members have been paid to truncate the cases in the tribunal.”

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