Lamidi Apapa, the factional chairman of the Labour Party, has given grounds on which he will honour an invitation for dialogue from the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
While responding to questions about if he will honour an invitation from Tinubu for reconciliation talks on Arise TV’s Morning Show on Thursday, Apapa said he would meet with the former Lagos State governor if it was approved by the party.
“Before I honour him, I will consult the executive of the party, so if they ask me to go ahead, I will do. If the executive says go ahead it becomes our position.
“It’s not going to be my position. If they say go and see him or we are going to see him, it becomes the position of the party not the position of Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Apapa.
“All of us will collectively go and see him. That is if we have the mandate of the house that we are going to see him,” the factional chairman said.
Meanwhile, the leadership crisis tearing the Labour Party apart took a very bad dimension on Wednesday as the factions loyal to Apapa, and Julius Abure clashed at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja.
The Federal High Court in Abuja had suspended Abure as the National Chairman of the LP.
But the frosty relationship between the two factions boiled over as Apapa was nearly lynched by some aggrieved LP members on the court premises but for the quick intervention of policemen, who brought the situation under control.
