Apapa accuses Peter Obi of misappropriating $15 million, N12 billion campaign funds
The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Lamidi Apapa, says claim by Peter Obi that he’s not met him before is false.
Obi is the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 election.
Apapa made this known while addressing newsmen on Wednesday after the proceedings at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, where he was mobbed.
He disclosed that members of the presidential campaign group of the party had at a meeting that was held on Tuesday to broker peace among the warring factions, vowed to deal with him should he attend the court session.
“They threatened that if I appear in court that something would happen”, the embattled LP factional chairman added, saying there was no truth in the allegation that he collected N500million to scuttle Obi’s petition against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
While branding Obi “a liar” for saying that he does not know him, Apapa said he actively participated in all the campaigns the party held before the presidential election and also flew back to Abuja with him in the same aircraft on one of the occasions.
“I want to tell the whole world that he is a liar. I have been in the party for over 21 years while he is not even up to one year in the party.
“I have never taken any kobo from anybody and I have challenged anyone that has any evidence to bring it forward”.
Insisting that he has contributed more to the party than Obi, Apapa, said it was not true that he was in court to withdraw the petition against Tinubu.
“Apart from money, what else does he (Obi) have that I don’t have?,” Apapa queried.
He accused Obi of refusing to respect the court order that suspended the Julius Abure-led executives of the party.
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