The Labour Party (LP) has said that the support for the Tinubu’s swearing-in of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on May 29 by the group loyal to Lamidi Apapa in the party, proves ‘Hand of Esau, Voice of Jacob’.
The suspended former Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa and expelled the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi had on Thursday, distanced themselves from the calls for an interim government and the agitations that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should not be sworn-in on May 29, pending the determination of the petitions before the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja.
However, the LP’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, in a statement said their actions confirmed that they were being sponsored to work for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“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.
“Having said that, we are perturbed by the mouth-piece 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 night and migraine, and has pushed them into deploying an 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. What we are seeing today is simply ‘the Hand of Esau, Voice of Jacob’.
“You do not need to spend millions of Naira to tell Nigerians what they already know through various media spaces. Nigerians already know that you are sponsored to work against the presidential ambition of Peter Obi. No one is in doubt of Apapa camp’s altruistic ambition to remain a destructive agent in the Labour Party.
“Few weeks ago, you will recall how we alerted Nigerians of plots by this faction to withdraw the cases filled by some of our candidates in the tribunals, allegations they are yet to exonerate themselves. We have also alerted Nigerians how these men who have no known source of income are now flying private jets and living in 5 star hotels.
“Part of their plots to scuttle the on going presidential tribunal as shamelessly boasted by Arabambi is to desecrate the sanctity of the Tribunal venue on the next adjourned date with Lamidi Alaba forcing himself to appear as a representative of the Labour Party. This will be the height of the APC’s evil plot and executed by Apapa and his gang to frustrate the peaceful judicial process being witnessed by Nigerians. They are hoping to inject tumultuous scene and probably force the process to a halt.
“Nigerians can not be taken for granted any longer and no amount of violence hatched and perpetuated by APC using the faction they created in Labour Party will stop what destiny has purposed for the nation. We are therefore urging Nigerians to stop these paid hirelings who will stop at nothing from frustrating the will of God for Nigerians.”
