APC To LP – Swim In Your Own Mess, Leave Our Party Out Of It

APC To LP – Swim In Your Own Mess, Leave Our Party Out Of It

By Kabir Akintayo

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the allegations made by the Labour Party’s Chairman (LP) Julius Abure, accusing the ruling party of interfering in the crises rocking his party.

POLITICS DIGEST had reported that, the Federal High Court in Abuja, barred Abure from parading himself as the LP Chairman over allegations of forgery and misappropriation of funds.

Meanwhile,  APC, in a statement made available to POLITICS DIGEST, on Saturday, fired back at Julius Abure, asking him to “swim in his own mess and leave APC out of it”.

APC, through its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, further said that, LP is already a sinking and dysfunctional party, looking for who to blame for its failures, accusing APC of colluding with the police to seize the LP National Secretariat.

The statement read in full:

“With legs deep in quick sand, the embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, clawing desperately in search of firmer ground, baselessly blames the All Progressives Congress (APC) for his sinking and dysfunctional Party.  In his irrational outburst, Mr. Abure accused the APC of colluding with police and other security agencies to invade and seize LP’s national secretariat and staging a crisis in that party.

“Total vindication of APC of any involvement in LP’s imbroglio was swiftly and categorically delivered by Mr. Abure’s successor and Acting National Chairman of LP, Mr. Lamidi Apapa, who exonerated our great Party of any interference in the party’s raging internal crisis. He clarified that the reported situation at the LP headquarters was a result of a legal process arising from the orders of a Federal Capital Territory High Court that barred Mr. Abure and other national officers of the party from parading themselves as such.

“The LP’s morbid obsession with APC is unfathomable and infantile, blaming APC for all its internal woes. Mr Abure’s bogus claim follows Mr Peter Obi’s unsubstantiated and vexatious claim that he was being hounded into exile by our party.

“To be clear, APC is not responsible for Mr Abure’s travails. He will do well to focus his thin attention and energy on  dealing with the many allegations of criminal conduct of forgery and financial impropriety leveled against him by his own party

“While the LP continues to grapple with its myriad woes and crying wolf where none exists, the APC will stay focused and committed to forming a new government to be led by the visionary President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as he drives the Renewed Hope agenda, and consolidate on the many gains of the out-going President Buhari-administration.”