Abayomi Arabambi, the Labour Party’s National Publicity Secretary, has said that despite the LP’s crisis, the party will not allow Peter Obi to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Arabambi, who appeared on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, on Friday stated that the party is seeking a political solution to its conflict so that its 2023 presidential candidate will not collaborate with his PDP rival Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 election.
He 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 spokesman also commented on the latest legal scuffle that has rocked the party, in which an FCT High Court barred Julius Abure and two others from representing the party as national officers.
On April 5, 2023, Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court ruled on an ex parte application and restrained Abure, Farouk Ibrahim, Clement Ojukwu, and Oluchi Opara from acting as LP national officers.
However, in March 2024, the Court of Appeal in Abuja overturned the lower court’s decision, which barred Julius Abure and two others from representing themselves as Labour Party national officers.
Justice Hamman Barka, who presided over a three-member panel of justices, ruled that Abure’s appeal was meritorious and so granted. He determined that the FCT high court erred in assuming jurisdiction over the case.
In addition, the court awarded Abure and the other appellants in the case N1 million. During the show, he reacted to the ruling by stating that all actions made by Abure between March 2023 and March 2024 were null and void.
“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.
