Obi not asked for shift of May 29 swearing-in date – Labour Party

The Labour Party (LP) has said that the fear of making it to Eagle Square for the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu was causing sleepless nights for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). THE LEADERSHIP reports.Information Guide Nigeria

According to the LP, in a statement, signed by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Pastor, Obiorah Ifoh, the All Progressives Congress has found allies in the likes of Lamidi Apapa and Abayomi Arabambi, Factional National Chairman of the LP and the National Secretary respectively.

The statement reads in part: “Apapa’s group visible love for Tinubu and their statement on ‘swearing in’ reflecting the ‘Hand of Esau, Voice of Jacob’

“We had refused to join issues with the expelled former acting National Publicity Secretary of Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, and the suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa on their mischievous narratives of the ‘May 29 handover’ to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s declared winner of the presidential election. The Labour Party actually does not want to comment on the matter which hearing has since commenced at the presidential appeal tribunal.JAMB Result

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“However, the text of the statement which was read as a commercial on about three television stations in prime time hours suggests that the real sponsors of the crisis in the Labour Party would stop at nothing in ensuring that they sustain the imbroglio.

“The huge financial war chest being deployed to achieve this inglorious plot to halt a popular aspiration of millions of Nigerians for a new and prosperous nation leaves a huge gap in the dexterity and desperation of these evil plotters.JAMB Portal

“In all Peter Obi’s public and private statements, he has never said or by implication, insinuate that May 29 should be shifted. He is a Democrat and he is one person that believes so much in the judiciary as the last arbiter, and that is why he has resorted to the court to seek justice.NYSC Portal

“Having said that, we are perturbed by the mouthpiece with which the All Progressives Congress, APC chose to express their fears. The possibility of not making it to Eagles Square on the 29th May has continued to give them both sleepless nights and migraine and has pushed them into deploying already compromised and fallen members of the Labour Party, led by Apapa and Arabambi as their compere to sing a song danced only by themselves.

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