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The last is yet to be seen in the unfolding drama in the Edo State Labour Party, LP, as the Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led faction is embroiled in a crisis as two candidates have emerged as its governorship candidate for the Edo State Governorship election scheduled for September 21, 2024. This is as the Abure-led faction of the party on Friday, ...

The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party, has urged its presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar to emulate the gesture of President of Liberia, George Weah and congratulate President Bola Tinubu. The LP’s factional spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi made this call in a statement on Sunday. Arabambi urged Obi and Atiku ...

The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party, has hailed the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the outcome of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election which President Bola Tinubu was declared winner. Spokesperson for the faction, Dr. Abayomi Arababmbi, in a statement in Abuja, on Saturday, congratulated Tinubu and begged him to be magnanimous in victory. Arabambi said the party’s attention ...

The Labour Party (LP) has described as dubious the allegations by its estranged Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, about Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate during the 2023 general elections. Arabambi belongs to the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party. According to the party, Arabambi had claimed that Obi was impersonating his dead elder brother and was also after his life. ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State capital, has ruled that Julius Abure should stop parading himself as the substantial National Chairman of… The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State capital, has ruled that Julius Abure should stop parading himself as the substantial National Chairman of the Labour Party. In its ruling on Thursday, the court ...

The Lamidi Apapa’s faction of the Labour Party, LP, has lamented over the choice of Peter Obi as its presidential candidate in the 2023 election. The faction said the party made a mistake by fielding Obi as its presidential candidate. The faction noted that Obi lied federally to the presidential election tribunal over some electoral documents from the Independent National ...

The suspended Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party has expressed concerns that the Appeal Court may reject the party’s appeal due to what it has characterised as Peter Obi’s legal team’s feeble justification for failing to present convincing evidence to support their allegations in court. The party’s embattled national publicity secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, voiced concern about ...

The factional chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Lamidi Apapa, has revealed what he will do should the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu invite him for reconciliation talks. Apapa made the revelation while speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday. He said, “Before I honour him, I will consult the executive of the party, so if they ask me ...

The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Lamidi Apapa has denied receiving N500 million from any quarters in order to scuttle the case of the party at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC). Apapa has also asked the presidential candidate of the party in the Feb. 25 Presidential Election, Mr Peter Obi to intervene in the leadership tussle ...

As crisis continues to rock the leadership of Labour Party (LP), its acting National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa, has denied being a stooge of President-elect, Bola Tinubu. He disclosed this, yesterday, in Bauchi during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party. He expressed surprise that the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi, did not know him, claiming ...