Labour Party disowns Baba-Ahmed’s statement on Tinubu

The scribe also recalled that the party had sponsored
candidates it believed at the time could win elections.

He also recalled that the result of the 2023 presidential
election declaration didn’t go its way, and the party challenged the result up
to the Supreme Court and lost.

“For the interest and peace of the nation, the Labour Party
accepted the judgment of the Supreme Court.

“This was not because we were pleased but because of the
finality of the Supreme Court’s judgement. The party has since moved on,” he
said.

Abayomi lamented that the party were astonished by the
illegal and unconstitutional meeting called by Gov. Alex Otti of Abia and Peter
Obi on April 9 in Abuja.

He said that at the meeting, Baba-Ahmed still referred to
the 2023 presidential election as ‘questionably constitutional’ even with the
legitimacy conferred on Tinubu’s government by the Supreme Court.

Abayomi also alleged that Baba-Ahmed, in an interview with a
national television station, said, “The appointments they are making are fake
and illegal.

“The paraphernalia of government they are enjoying,
destroying our country, and spending our money is only for a little time.”

He, therefore, said for them at the party, such a statement
was clearly inciting and a call for mass action against a constituted
authority.

Abayomi said, “We think there should be a limit to whipping
up the public sentiments against a legitimate government.

“The Arab Spring that rattled the entire Middle East started
when the Arab leaders paid no attention to Bouazizi’s subtle.

“There was also the persistent galvanisation of the youths
against their governments leading into the mass demonstrations, revolts, and
revolutions that almost consumed the region.”

He recalled that Baba-Ahmed, while refusing to concede
victory in the 2023 presidential election, also alleged that Tinubu’s
government harboured a grand scheme to dismember Nigeria into six possibly
autonomous zones.

He had also alleged that the administration had thrown
Nigerians into untold hardship.

All these, Abayomi said, were efforts to whip up sentiments
against the government.

He emphasised that Nigeria was presently passing through a
dangerous and precarious phase.

According to him, this needs every well meaning Nigerian to
realise the fragility of the nation by putting politics aside and help to move
the nation out of the woods.

Abayomi maintained that the leadership of LP had stated
clearly that it was within the right of every Nigerian to hold the government
accountable for its inability to live up to the expectation.

He, however, said statements that were inciting and capable
of plunging the nation into unwarranted combustion, particularly by the
political class, must be avoided.

“The Labour Party under the able leadership of Mr Julius
Abure, therefore, wishes to completely dissociate itself from the unfortunate
and reprehensible comments by its former vice presidential candidate,” he said.

Similarly, Abayomi said the party also viewed the alleged
comment by Otti of a possible ‘doomsday’ awaiting the Julius Abure-led leadership
as a direct threat to the lives of the party’s executive members.

He called on all the security agencies to beef up security
around their leaders. (NAN)