The national publicity secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), Abayomi Arabambi on Wednesday claimed that their faction no longer considers the party’s flagbearer during the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi as their presidential candidate.

According to Arabambi, the faction failed to recognise Obi because he approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) without any polling unit agent from the 176,846 polling units to support his case.

He accused the former governor of Anambra State of using them to achieve an ambition that they don’t understand yet.

Arabambi said, “Well I refer to Peter Obi as our former candidate. In the comedy of a press conference he did today, he knew he had filed his appeal before the Supreme Court and the CSU saga is not part of his pleading before the Supreme Court but he seems to engulf himself more in this PDP (sic), what we call ‘Labour Party in PDP’ is what Peter Obi is doing and that is why we on our own refer to him as our former presidential candidate.

“Before now, he has ceased to be our candidate because going to the presidential election petition court without a single agent from the (176,846) polling units is a man who deliberately prepared to use us to achieve an ambition that we don’t understand”

We understand that Obi has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the judgment of the presidential tribunal which affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February 25th, 2023 election.