According to the Labour Party (LP) group led by Lamidi Apapa, Peter Obi did not triumph in the election held on February 25 as their candidate for president in 2023.
This was said by the faction in a statement released on Saturday by the faction’s spokesperson, Abayomi Arabambi, in support of a declaration made by Nobel Prize winner Prof. Wole Soyinka regarding the 2023 presidential election.
Arabambi said that Obi and the factional National Chairman Julius Abure were aware of the truth regarding the party’s performance in the presidential election and that President Bola Tinubu had won.
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He disclosed that the Abure faction’s response to Soyinka’s statement was viewed by the party as nothing more than “affront and abuse from a rude boy to his grandfather.”
Arabambi claimed that the party suffered greatly as it prepared for the 2023 elections because of inadequate logistics, the lack of party representatives in the majority of the voting locations, and other factors.
He asserted that Obi has turned the party into a regional party and that only national officers of Igbo descent are of importance to him.
The statement reads: “It is condemnable and highly disturbing that rather than going back to the drawing board to meticulously examine where things have fallen apart and re-strategize for 2027 elections, some irredentist masquerading as members of the Labour Party have chosen to attack the highly revered scholar for only re-echoing the truth that is not hidden to discerning Nigerians.
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“Even Prof. Charles Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, where Obi hailed from, had also said in the past that the probability of Obi clinching third position in the presidential race was very slim, not to talk of winning the elections.
“As a party, we knew that Professor Wole Soyinka was right in his submission because how does anyone claim to have won an election based solely on pejoratives, assumption, vague rhetorics and zero evidence pointing to such being the case, but on the expectation that the actual winner would be disqualified and by some stroke of black magic, the candidate in the 3rd place will suddenly be declared winner without any proof of having scored the majority vote is absolute judicial madness on display by Peter Obi, Julius Abure and their blind allies.
“We know we lost that election; it was true Obi and Abure wanted to do ‘gbajue’ because ab initio, even when the Presidential campaign council was formed, in the North, Peter Obi uses Igbo as State Coordinators while northerner remains their deputies.
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“That’s why we failed woefully. Imagine somebody that has no polling unit result sheet, and no agents in the majority of the polling units now turn around to claim election victory. So, how then do we say we won?
“Labour Party has been reduced to a regional party under him as he is only interested in National officers of Igbo extraction.”
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