Edo 2024: Ex-NBA President, Akpata Opens Up On Beating Of Lamidi Apapa’s Men

Frontline Labour Party governorship aspirant in Edo State, Mr Olumide Akpata has reacted to insinuations of his involvement in the beating blue and black of the party’s factional National Youth Leader, Anslem Eragbe who is aligned to the Lamidi Apapa faction.

GWG.ng reports that Eragbe alongside another member of the Lamidi Apapa faction of the party were beaten to pulp in Benin City after they issued guidelines for the conduct of the party’s governorship primary.

That guideline of the Lamidi Apapa faction remarkably stated that Akpata, a former national president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA was excluded over claims the faction made that he was a mole of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Reacting to the insinuations of his involvement as asserted by the Apapa faction, Akpata in an interview expressed his shock saying that he was not even in Benin.

He said:

“This man has insinuated that I am behind the attack that took place in Benin and this is ridiculous and I wonder why he has singled me out.

“The first thing we saw yesterday was that Labour Party has asked Akpata not to present himself as an aspirant in Labour Party because he is a mole of Governor Obaseki

“My friends and supporters were shocked by this and everybody reached out to me and I was worried myself. We reached out to the Labour Party in Edo State and said there was nothing as such and when I opened the article I realized that it was Mr Arabambi and his colleagues who issued that statement.

“They singled me out of all the aspirants and said don’t present yourself because you are a mole of Governor Obaseki and Mr Arabambi comes on national television that whatever melee happened in Benin.”

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