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Labour Party has Dumped Peter Obi and Declared Support For Tinubu’s Inauguration.
The Labour Party’s Lamidi Apapa faction has distanced itself from calls for an interim government and demands that President-elect Bola Tinubu not be sworn in on May 29, pending the outcome of the petitions before the presidential election tribunal.
According to a Labour Party faction, Tinubu’s inauguration “may have no impact on the ongoing legal squabble over the presidential election involving our party, APC, and INEC.”
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In a statement issued on Wednesday, the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, stated that the Electoral Act and the Nigerian Constitution do not allow for a vacuum, and that “whether the President-elect is sworn in or not, there is a legal right to remove him if it is discovered that he was not duly elected.”
Arabambi recalled how, in 2003, the court deposed Chris Ngige and installed Peter Obi as governor of Anambra.
Arabambi stated that only death and permanent incapacity could prevent a President-elect from being sworn in, citing sections 136 and 146 of the constitution.
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According to the LP factional spokesman, “what Peter Obi is crying for is not supported by the law.”
“A refusal to swear in Tinubu as President will create a vacuum in the system,” he said, adding that “the law abhors this.”
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