Abayomi Arabambi, the national publicity secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), said on Wednesday that their faction no longer considers Peter Obi, the party’s flagbearer in the 2023 presidential election, as their presidential candidate.
This assertion was made by Arabambi during an interview on AIT in response to Obi’s news conference on Bola Tinubu’s academic records.
According to Arabambi, the faction refused to acknowledge Obi since he petitioned the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) without the assistance of a polling unit agent from any of the 176,846 polling units.
He accused the former Anambra State governor of manipulating them to attain an objective that they do not understand.
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Arabambi said, “Well I refer to Peter Obi as our former candidate. In the comedy of a press conference he did today, he knew he had filed his appeal before the Supreme Court and the CSU saga is not part of his pleading before the Supreme Court but he seems to engulf himself more in this PDP (sic), what we call ‘Labour Party in PDP’ is what Peter Obi is doing and that is why we on our own refer to him as our former presidential candidate.
“Before now, he has ceased to be our candidate because going to the presidential election petition court without a single agent from the (176,846) polling units is a man who deliberately prepared to use us to achieve an ambition that we don’t understand”
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Obi has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, disputing the presidential tribunal’s decision, which confirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February 25th, 2023 election.
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