LP fires back at Apapa’s faction for accusing Peter Obi of using later brother’s certificate

<p>The Labour Party (LP) has described as dubious the allegations by its estranged Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, about Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate during the 2023 general elections.</p>, <p>Arabambi belongs to the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party.</p>, <p>According to the party, Arabambi had claimed that Obi was impersonating his dead elder brother and was also after his life.</p>, <p>However, in a statement issued on Monday by the Chief Spokesperson for the Obi-Datti Media, Yunusa Tanko, the LP described the allegation as a farce, a slapstick comedy from hell.</p>, <p>Tanko claimed that Arabambi was at the forefront of malicious hatchet jobbers recruited as political hirelings and buccaneers indulging in menial work of character assassination to soil the name of its presidential candidate.</p>, <p>The spokesman said Arabambi had dubiously continued to identify himself as a member and publicity secretary of LP when he knew he was not a member of the party.</p>, <p>While dismissing the allegations against Obi, Tanko stated that Obi’s most senior brother is still alive, noting that one of his senior brothers who died was at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, years ahead of him and read computer science while Obi read philosophy.</p>, <p>On Arabambi’s claim that Obi was after his life, Tanko described the claim as laughable, insisting that Obi’s harmless disposition to politics and non-violent posture even in extreme provocation were apparent enough to make the dismissal of such a wild and unsubstantiated accusation baseless.</p>, <p>He, therefore, urged the public and, particularly, the media to treat Apapa and Arabambi as impersonators who go about using the name of the party to say negative things about Peter Obi.</p>, <p>Part of the statement read: “Some political hirelings, buccaneers indulging in menial work of character assassination, have lately been let loose dubiously ostensibly to soil the name of our Presidential candidate, Peter Obi. At the forefront of these malicio