The Labour Party (LP) crisis has taken on new dimensions, with the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Aboyemi Arabambi, accusing the party’s leadership of forgery.
According to him, the party’s leadership allegedly forged the signatures of an Appeal Court judge in order to insert names of candidates for the Lagos State National Assembly election and then presented the list to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Arabambi made the claim on Saturday’s Arise TV Morning Show.
He stated that he has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and written the Chief Justice of Nigeria about the matter.
The Labour Party’s national publicity secretary pushed the party’s flag bearer, Peter Obi, who was surrounded by “shady characters.”
Arabambi stated that if Obi’s party wins the presidential election next year, Nigerians should not allow “criminals” to follow him into the Villa.
He said:
Peter Obi is a very clean individual. People that have shady characters must not be seen around them.
We must not allow criminals to follow him (Peter Obi) to Aso Rock.”
Speaking on the alleged forgery, he said “Very soon, police will swoop on the Labour Party headquarters. I have written to the Nigeria Police over it, I have complained to the Chief Justice of Nigeria and I have filed a suit in the Supreme Court over the matter.
Our party leadership was involved in a forgery of Court of Appeal judgement. I am not going to be a part of that criminal infraction.
I have written to the police. I don’t want Nigerians to think that it is APC or PDP that sent police to our office. No. It is what our people did.
Just because they wanted some candidates to run for election, they manipulated and presented false information to the court of appeal and INEC and I told them no because criminal infraction doesn’t have years. And at any given time the police can knock at your door. Because I was involved in that matter at the Federal High Court I have to set the record straight.
I don’t want anybody to say I am an accessory to the case. I have my facts and figures and I will publish them in the dailies.
We didn’t have this kind of thing in the Labour Party until Doyin Okupe came in with his bandwagon of people because they are the ones involved in this thing. I have forwarded their names to IGP, I have reported to the CJN and I have asked my lawyers to write a letter to INEC not to publish the names because they were falsified.
Our members are giving them safe landing, security or cover-up, I am giving them the assurance today that all of us will soon go to Louis Edet House to explain what happened.
When they came to appeal they changed some names in the judgement of the Federal High Court and that is a criminal offence. You don’t change a name. The parties from a Federal High Court are the ones that will go to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.