The leadership crisis in the Labour Party reached a new high on Wednesday when a faction of the party strongly resisted journalists from interviewing the Lamidi Apapa-led group.
Shouts of Ole, a Yoruba word for thief, rend the air as Lamidi Apapa, factional Labour Party Chairman, made his way out of the Appeal Court on Wednesday.
The group waited to block the interview with Apapa and booed him while chanting “ole” and many other invectives.
To curtail the chaos, the police had to ward off the determined protestors who followed him out and blocked him from entering his car or leaving the premises.
He had attempted to speak with a group of journalists after the proceedings but the continuous noise disrupted the process.
Apapa eventually walked away but he was overshadowed by the crowd.
Recall that the Presidential Election Petition court on Wednesday refused to recognize any representative of the Labour Party except the 1st petitioner, Peter Obi, who was in court.
Before the court began proceeding, the factions of the Labour Party could be sighted at the PEP Court, engaging in a war of words over which faction is the authentic one.
The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the LP was challenging why members of the party loyal to Julius Abure were in the court.
They asserted that the ruling of a High Court of the FCT, suspending the Abure-led faction, remains.
It could be recalled that the Federal High Court, Abuja suspended Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party over alleged forgery of documents including court documents.
Following this, Apapa took over the leadership of the party but there has been a crisis in the party since then.
