Drama as lawyer who sneaked into Presidential Tribunal to represent Apapa Lamidi-led faction thoroughly reprimanded
The lawyer who insisted he must speak was told to leave the courtroom or to remain silent and observe the proceedings without interfering.
Drama as lawyer who sneaked into Presidential Tribunal to represent Apapa Lamidi-led faction thoroughly reprimanded
There was a mild drama today at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as yet-to-be identified Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, who sneaked into the courtroom suspected to be from the Lamidi Apapa-led group was thoroughly reprimanded.
According to information obtained by News Week Nigeria, the lawyer who was accompanied by the Apapa-led faction claimed that he was instructed by the Labour Party to represent them.
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The presiding justice ordered him to sit down as he was trying to speak, stating that there was no way he would enter the case and represent the Labour Party since the party already had a group of solicitors representing them.
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Drama at the Presidential Appeal Petition Tribunal as a SAN who stood up to represent Apapa group was thoroughly reprimanded for accepting such a brief from an unknown group and was shamefully walked out of the court by the Judges.#WeShallReclaimOurMandate
— LabourPartyNG (@NgLabour) May 19, 2023
The lawyer who insisted he must speak was told to leave the courtroom or to remain silent and observe the proceedings without interfering.
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In another news, the Labour Party (LP) factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa, says he can’t rule out the possibility of working with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
This is coming amid allegations by the rival party leadership that Apapa was doing the bidding of Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to create confusion in LP. He was also accused of collecting a N500 million bribe from Tinubu, but had denied the allegation.
Apapa has been at loggerheads with the LP’s suspended chairman, Julius Abure, over the leadership of the party.
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Responding to questions on whether he would honour Tinubu’s invitation for reconciliation on Arise TV on Thursday, Apapa said he would do so if approved by the party.
He said, “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.
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“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.”
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