Two factions of the Labour Party have created a scene at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that the clash started when Factional Chairman of the Party, Lamidi Apapa walked into the court premises alongside some of his supporters.
Apapa who is locked in a battle with Suspended Chairman of the Party, Julius Abure had arrived the court for the case of a petition which Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the party, filed against the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu.
He made attempted to sit where Labour Party officials were and a shouting match ensued.
“Who are you?” a party official asked Apapa, who fired back saying, “Who are you too?”
When the LP matter was called, Peter Obi and the party’s Women Leader, Dudu Manoga, introduced themselves on the record of the court.
However, when Apapa stood up to introduce himself as the National Chairman, the presiding justice of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani requested him to stop the introduction as the court will not recognise the ‘National Chairman’ on record.
Abure, who sat next to Obi, did not, however attempt to introduce himself.
Apapa had earlier vowed to take control of the party and to withdraw the petition and motions before the court ahead of the sitting following the ruling of an FCT High Court sustaining Abure’s suspension. The LP has since appealed the ruling.
