Senate Presidency: Why Labour Party Senators-Elect Are Backing Akpabio, Osuntokun Speaks

• Labour Party has revealed the reason its senators-elect are supporting Godswill Obot Akpabio for the next Senate president
• The DG of the party, Akin Osuntokun, says the unavailability of other parties to contest for the nation's 3rd seat informed the lawmaker's decision
• Meanwhile, Akpabio had earlier urged the opposition parties to support not only his Senate president bid, but also the president-elect Bola Tinubu’s administration

The Director-General of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Akin Osuntokun, has explained why senators-elect on its platform are supporting the anointed candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the leadership position of the 10th National Assembly.

Osuntokun said LP senators are backing Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jibrin for the seat of the Senate president and deputy, respectively, due to the unavailability of other parties contesting for the seat.

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Why LP is backing Akpabio for Senate president

Reacting in an interview with The Punch, Osuntokun said:

“They would have taken a lot of things into consideration before they decided to support the leadership of the National Assembly.

“I am not knowledgeable on what is going on but they must have their reason why they are doing that especially when there is no other party contesting. If there is no other party contesting, then they don’t have a choice.”

Akpabio asks NNPP, LP to support him

Meanwhile, Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, has asked the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Labour Party (LP) to support his aspiration to be the Senate president.

Akpabio and Barau Jibrin, the deputy senate president aspirant, made this known when they visited the headquarters of the NNPP and LP recently in Abuja, The Cable reported.

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At the meeting, the former governor of Akwa Ibom said he needed the support of the opposition parties to become Senate president.

Labour Party factional chairman Lamidi Apapa, Peter Obi attend proceeding as tribunal resumes

In another report, the acting national chairman of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, on Friday, May 19, kept his word on returning to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, following his attempt on Wednesday, May 17.

Apapa was spotted seated at the back of the courtroom as opposed to the area reserved for Labour Party representatives when the tribunal resumed proceedings on Friday.

Also present was the party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

Buhari’s ex-minister reveals why Atiku, Peter Obi lost to Tinubu

A former minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, has revealed what actually played out in the Saturday, February 25 presidential election.

According to Shittu, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, lost the poll because of a lack of vision and proper organisation.

The former minister made this disclosure in Abuja during a press conference organised by the Coalition of All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups on Thursday, May 18.

Source: Legit.ng