Lamidi Apapa’s faction warns Obi against seeking  LP’s presidential ticket in 2027 

 

The Labour Party’s Lamidi Apapa faction has stated that the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, should seek another political platform to fulfil his presidential dream before the 2027 elections.

The Apapa group, whose validity was just confirmed by the Court of Appeal’s Edo Division, declared that it had begun seeking a new presidential candidate ahead of the 2027 election.

The faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi stated this during an interview with The PUNCH Newspaper on Wednesday

Arambambi delivered his remarks in light of Obi’s Supreme Court appeal, which was filed on Tuesday and contested the decision of the Presidential Election Petitions Court that declared President Bola Tinubu the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

The Obi-led LP faction and the Julius Abure faction’s intention to challenge Tinubu’s victory in court has been rejected by the Apapa-led LP group.

The Edo division of the Court of Appeal recognised Apapa as the legitimate National Chairman of the Labour Party on August 14.

In the interview, Arabambi said Obi should not waste his time seeking an appeal against Tinubu’s election.

He added that Obi lost the election due to his alleged mismanagement of human resources.

“My advice is for him (Obi) to go and start preparing for 2027. But it has to be in another party, not in LP. We are not going to allow this kind of rascality to continue in 2027. We will look for a fresh candidate as far as we are concerned.

“Obi is free to go back to APGA to run, not Labour Party. We don’t want to continue accommodating a character who believes no other person, other than himself, has anything upstairs. He is not a good manager of human resources. That was why he lost woefully.”

Yunusa Tanko, spokesman for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, downplayed Arabambi’s warning.