I’ll Honour Tinubu If He Invites Me — Lamidi Apapa

Labour Party’s factional leader, Lamidi Apapa, says he is willing to meet with President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should he request a meeting with him.

However, according to Apapa, Labour Party executives must approve for such a gathering to take place.

“I will talk with the party executives before I honor him (Tinubu). “If they ask me to go ahead, I will do,” he stated, adding “If they ask me to go ahead, it becomes our position and not my position.”

The factional LP chairman spoke on Thursday, one day after a mob believed to be Labour Party supporters attacked him at the FCT Court of Appeal on the grounds that he had gone to a presidential tribunal hearing to thwart the petition filed by the LP’s Peter Obi against Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

The LP group of Julius Abure, the party’s suspended National Chairman, and Apapa’s side have been at odds for some time.

Speaking on Arise TV’s “The Morning Show,” he asserted that his disagreement with Abure’s group is solely about defending his right to serve as the acting chairman of the LP and has nothing to do with undermining Obi’s prospects of winning the tribunal.

Apapa also stated that he completely supported Obi’s effort to dispute Tinubu’s election victory before the presidential tribunal.

“I’ve mentioned it before, I wholeheartedly support Obi’s mission. None of them can claim to be a more ardent supporter of Obi than I am since my voting location and the votes I received support Obi’s assumption of the presidency of Nigeria.

“None of them can thus claim to be more obedient than I am. I thus support him wholeheartedly because, without a doubt, I believe that his election victory and subsequent election as president will improve my life.”

He also said, “I prefer him (Obi) to be there and I keep on maintaining that on Obi’s mandate, I stand.”

According to sources, Tinubu and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are the targets of Apapa’s naughty intentions to withdraw Obi’s case from the presidential tribunal.

“I don’t give in to the lawsuit being dropped. I’ve stated this several times. Why should you give up on a good case when you have it? Why should you give up when you have a strong case to handle?

“I oppose withdrawal because we have evidence against the APC, and we must go with that evidence logically to its conclusion. That is my opinion, and I stand by it,” he continued.