The crisis in the Labour Party (LP) has taken another dimension as the Lamidi Apapa-led faction on Friday issued a warning letter to the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The Apapa camp also, in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police, demanded the arrest of Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party.
Apapa and Abure have been engaged in a protracted legal battle over the leadership of the party.
The warning letter issued to Obi, with reference number LP/NWC-NEC/WARNING LETTER/PO/ABUJA/VOL.1/2023/02, was dated August 24, 2023, and signed by Apapa as Acting National Chairman and Saleh Lawan as Acting National Secretary respectively.
According to the letter seen by our Source on Friday, Obi was issued the warning for recognizing Abure as the national chairman of the LP during the flag-off of Athan Achonu’s campaign for the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.
The letter was titled ‘Warning letter over your serial violations as contempt of court order and judgments; and disclaimer of the Imo State gubernatorial campaign flag-off by Mr. Peter Obi, Barr Julius Abure, and Sen. Athan Achonu, on Tuesday, 22nd August 2023 on Owerri’.
Addressing Obi, the letter said, “The Labour Party (LP) NEC and NWC declared to you that Alhaji Lamidi Bashiru Apapa is the Acting National Chairman of the Labour Party in Nigeria till today and contrary to your declaration at the venue of your illegal, unlawful and unauthorized gubernatorial campaign flag-off for Senator Athan Achonu on Tuesday, 22nd August 2023.”
