Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata, has revealed that he did not recently join the Labour Party, as pictures of him attending ward meetings of the party surface.
Mr Olumide, who revealed that he had been receiving a series of calls since the picture of him attending a Labour Party ward meeting surfaced on social media on Tuesday, disclosed that he had been with the party since March.
“Quite a number of people have called/messaged me to confirm the news, currently making the rounds, that I have joined a political party,” Mr Akpata wrote.
“Yes…I joined the @labourparty_ng in March this year and on Sunday I attended my first Ward Meeting at Oredo Ward 6, in Benin-City, where I was formally introduced to members of the Ward and presented with my Party membership card,” he added.
Mr Akpata claimed that he took the decision to delve into partisan politics because he got tired of complaining about the country, and wanted to be part of the solution.
“This was a major step for me and not one that I took lightly…but I simply got tired of complaining about Nigeria every day and bemoaning her fate and I decided to take the plunge and to try to be part of the solution rather than agonising continually over the problem,” he added.
Olumide was the president of the NBA between August 2020 and July 2022.
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