NAIJA NEWS
The legal team of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and and the party has ignored the 48 hours ultimatum given by the party’s factional leader, Lamidi Apapa to brief him about the petitions before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Naija News gathered from Daily Trust that the lead counsel to Obi and the Labour Party, Levi Uzoukwu (SAN), on Sunday, said the legal team has no business with Apapa.
According to him, Apapa didn’t brief them and so they are not answerable to him in any way.
The team’s reaction follows Apapa’s directive on Friday that all the lawyers in charge of the petition at the election tribunal should brief him on updates within 48 hours.
He was quoted as saying “I want to invite all the lawyers that are in charge, representing the Labour Party at the election tribunal, to give me updates in the next 48 hours…
