Samuel Adesola
National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, says the party will not allow Peter Obi to join the Peoples Democratic Party.
Arabambi stated this on an interview programme on Channels Television on Friday.
He said the party was already seeking a political solution to its internal crisis with a view to preventing its 2023 presidential candidate from working 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 Mr Peter Obi to join Atiku.
“We knew their plans, that was why we said ‘we need to explore political solution between ourselves.”
The LP chieftain also spoke on the recent legal tussle in the party in which an FCT High Court barred Julius Abure and two others from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
On April 5, 2023, Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court, ruling on an ex parte application, 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, who led a three-member panel of justices, held that Abure’s appeal had merit and was accordingly allowed.
The judge held that the FCT high court was wrong to have assumed jurisdiction on the matter.
The court also awarded the sum of N1 million in favour of Abure and other appellants in the matter.
But Arabambi, in his reaction to the verdict, declared every action taken by Abure between March 2023 and March 2024 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,” the LP spokesman added.
