The National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Abayomi Arabambi, on Friday, has vowed that his party will not allow its former presidential candidate in the 2023 general election to rejoin the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Arabambi maintained that notwithstanding the crisis in the Labour Party, the party won’t allow Peter Obi to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The LP National Publicity Secretary made this disclosure when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
Speaking at the prgramme, he said the party is seeking a political solution to its crisis. And as a result, its former presidential candidate won’t work with his PDP counterpart Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 poll.
Arabambi said, “Politically, we will not allow the crisis to fester for long that we will now allow Peter Obi to join Atiku.”
“We knew their plans. And that was why we said ‘we need to explore political solution between ourselves.”
The LP spokesman also used the occasion of the programne to weigh in on the recent legal tussle rocking the party.
Recall that an FCT High Court had restrained Julius Abure and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
This was contained in the judgment delivered by Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court.
The court ruling on an ex parte application on April 5, 2023, had restrained Abure, Farouk Ibrahim, Clement Ojukwu, and Oluchi Opara from acting as national officers of the LP.
However, in March 2024, the Court of Appeal in Abuja set aside the judgment of the lower court which restrained Julius Abure and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the Labour Party.
Justice Hamman Barka, leading a three-member panel of justices, held that Abure’s appeal had merit and was accordingly allowed. He held that the FCT High Court was wrong to have assumed jurisdiction on the matter.
The Court, therefore, awarded the sum of N1 million in favour of Abure and other appellants in the matter.
But speaking on the show, Arabambi he said every action taken by Abure between March 2023 and March 2024 is a nullity.
“Since the Court of Appeal just set aside the judgement in March 2024, every other thing done between March 2023 and to 2024 by Julius Abure is a nullity,” he added.
source: Channels TV
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