A factional Chairman of Labour Party, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, says the party had warned against the stand of its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi that he was only chasing a wild goose.
Apapa, in a statement issued Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr. Abayomi Arabambi, while reacting to the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), said it was a shame that the legal team of Obi failed to advise him properly before going to the tribunal.
He said while the party accepted the verdict without any bias, he described the whole process as a waste of time.
Apapa stated: “Peter Obi has just gone on a wild goose chase, imagine the candidate that failed to fund the party in order to engage the number of required polling agents, also the filing of the witnesses outside the stipulated time has shown that the legal team is a failure.
“Some of us have been saying that Peter Obi decided to go to the tribunal to justify all the money he collected during the campaign, all that money was corruptly siphoned.”
The chairman noted that it was unfortunate that Obi failed to convince the tribunal those polling units where he was rigged out.
He stressed that the Labour party noted with all sense of purpose and in full agreement with the Presidential Tribunal that struck out the report from the EU tendered by Obi from its record for not meeting the clarification guidelines.
Apapa added: “Thus our previous position has now been confirmed that Peter Obi was just all out to defraud our party of donations made towards 2023 general election which was in a scary Sum of $15 million dollars and N12 billion.”