I Helped Obi Clinch Labour Party’s Presidential Ticket – Sowore
POLITICS DIGEST – Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and publisher of Sahara Reporters has revealed how he helped Peter Obi to clinch the presidential candidate ticket of the Labour Party for the 2023 general elections.
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Sowore who spoke on Monday at the memorial lecture held in honour of the late human rights lawyer and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, in Lagos narrated how he and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana helped the party to pick the former Governor of Anambra State and how they took legal steps to defend the Labour Party when they had a problem.
According to him, in the heat-up to the 2023 presidential election, there were calls that Peter Obi should not be presented as the LP flagbearer, but they got a court judgment which Falana used in defending the party.
“When the Labour Party ran into a problem, there was a member of the LP who insisted that the LP could not present the candidacy of Peter Obi. They had a legal problem.
“We went and obtained a judgment in court, from the Court of Appeal and handed it over to Falana to use it to defend the Labour Party, and by extension, Peter Obi’s candidacy.
“Yes! I’m just telling you that we’re in the business of saving people,” Sowore said.