The National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), Abayomi Arabambi, on Wednesday, shed more light on what caused the crisis in the party.
Arabambi claimed that the crisis in the party started after the Director of the Commissioner of the Oath Department for the Register, Lawal Funmilola, told them that the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, forged his documents.
Speaking during an interview on AIT, Arabambi claimed that former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and Afenifere leader, Ayo Adebanjo were aware of the forgery.
Arabambi went further to accuse Obasanjo of beating him in his office because he told him and Adebanjo that a forgery would not lead them to the party.
He claimed that the presidential candidate of their party, Peter Obi, and some personalities in the party were told of the situation, but they told him to wait for Obi to win before the issue would be addressed.
Arabambi speaking on the crisis in the party, said, “I have here a letter written by Lawal Funmilola, Director of the Commissioner of the Oath Department for the Registrar. This was what caused the crisis in the Labour Party. Some of our candidates were changed without our knowledge.
“He now presented an affidavit to INEC, and INEC changed their name. We wrote, and the court, I repeat, Lawal Funmilola, Director, Commissioner of the Oath Department, said Abure was involved in forgery, and the court wrote back to us the certified true copy that that document was forged.
“We invited Obi, and he said we should leave Abure. Yes, he said we should leave Abure, and we should allow him to win. Obasanjo knew all of them. Baba Adebanjo, all of them knew.
“I got to say the truth here now. In fact, it’s part of why Obasanjo beat me in his house because I told them that a forger would not lead us to the party, but he said we should allow Obi to win first. We said no; we will not allow him to win.”
