LP chieftain accuses APC of instigating falsehood to get at Obi
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) floating an interim national government (ING) as a cover to persecute political opponents.
Pat Okafor, an LP member-elect of the Anambra State House of Assembly, alleged the plot came from APC and President-elect Bola Tinubu on discovery the LP and its candidate Peter Obi have weighty evidence at the tribunal that the presidential election was rigged.
Okafor spoke at his ‘thank-you’ reception at his home in Onitsha for friends and members of his constituency for electing him.
He said the allegation of an ING is also aimed at distracting Obi and other Nigerians, especially the youths, from demanding a change of the old order to ensure accountable governance.
“Obi can’t instigate for interim government because if there will be interim government it is still the APC government that will be in power.
“So it is APC and Tinubu that are jittery that Obi has gone to court as they demanded because he has proof and evidence of how he, Obi, won the election but was rigged out,” Okafor argued.
“Obi has asked the people to calm down. You don’t arrest one without evidence. It is APC that is jittery about Obi’s victory in the presidential election.”
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Waiting for the judiciary to dispense justice
“Even Atiku Abubakar, [Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate], knows that Obi won the election and that is why they left the person that they said won the second position to accuse the third person, Obi, of instigating an interim government,” Okafor said, as reported by Vanguard.
“Obi won that election. Let us see what the judiciary will do, it is going to be a public trial. The judiciary is going to be on public and world trials. That petition to the court by Obi rattles Tinubu and APC because it has facts in it. The evidence is there for the court to see.”
Okafor reiterated he left the PDP because it is a party of moneybags where money is worshipped and not the interest of the majority of Nigerians.
“PDP plays the role of moneybags and we decided to leave the party and join our principal, Mr Peter Obi, for LP. We are seven of us going to the State House of Assembly.
“PDP is dead in Anambra State going by what played out in the 2023 general election. When I was in PDP I won the election because I had a better antecedent, background and popularity, but so many factors that included litigation, and intra-party crises, among others, militated against my victory.”