Obi’s LP Supporters Fight Back Against Dissidents, Hit Arabambi – Lifestyle Nigeria
Leaders and stakeholders of the Labour Party from the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria have for the first time, reacted to what they described and condemned in stern terms as “unacceptable serial inflammatory public statements and blackmail” by Mr Abayomi Arabambi against Mr Peter Obi, the presidential flag bearer of the party in the 2023 general elections.
Mr. Arabambi is the designated National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa led faction of the party.
The statement was issued by the joint leadership of Labour Party Leaders Conference for National Consolidation (LPLCNC), Labour Party National Pressure Group (LPNPG) and the Labour Party Primary Elections Independent Observer Group (LPPEIOG).
A renowned leader of the party for many years and national trustee of the LPLCNC, Bishop Samuel Omede, led the chieftains of the South-South to the media release. Bishop Omede was Edo state chairman of Labour Party some eleven years ago, while the current National Chairman of the party, Barr. Julius Abure, was state secretary under him beginning from 2012, during the Adams Oshiomhole administration as governor of Edo state.
The National Secretary of LPLCNC, Comrade Tony Akeni, who was also the Head of National Publicity, Contact & Mobilization Team of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) during the 2023 general elections, coordinated the media response which was co-signed by Sunday Adukwu Esq. (South-East) Peter Oboyi Esq. and Dr. Ajibola Soetan (South-West) both of the Labour Party observer group LPPEIOG.
Other signatory stakeholders were Comrade Joseph Enan Maigari, Northern Nigeria coordinator of the Labour Party National Pressure Group (LPNPG) and Dr. Gwaya O. Emefesi (both representing North-East), Sheikh Rufai Al-Saddiq (North-Central) who is also the Grand Patron of the Northern Humanity Council (NHC). Comrade Sani Saeed Altukry and PCC Woman Leader Ladidi Martha Yusuf represented the North-West.
The statement which was released on Thursday hours before the Supreme Court’s final judgement on the 2023 presidential election is reproduced below.
We leaders, elders and stakeholders of the Labour Party across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria stand on our right as independent stakeholders and undertake the following solemn declaration.
1. We condemn in whole and in the gravest terms the serial, mercantile blackmail fed inexorably to the Nigerian public in endless inflammatory defamation and diatribes by Mr. Abayomi Arabambi, the designated Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party, against the impeccable reputation and personality of our Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, His Excellency Peter Obi.
2. While silence is considered wisdom by the sound and profound in mind, unfortunately silence also means consent to the simple-minded, misinformed and innocently uninformed who constitute the majority of society.
3. In a country as populous as Nigeria, it is unrealistic to assume that everyone is sound-minded or adequately informed and able to rightly decipher the truth in complex matters of public importance. Therefore, to continue to be silent in the face of Arabambi’s unrelenting and ambitious insanity to impress his blackmail paymasters is to assume that there is scarcity of mis-leadable public and risk leaving a considerable population of Nigerians to continue to feed on the river of maggots that flow from the cesspool of Arabambi’s dark soul. Hence this long overdue rejoinder has become undeferrably necessary.
4. Nigerians and the world, including shocked mainstream news media and TV networks, will recall that shortly after the Appeal Court constituted the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) in May to preside over the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Arabambi and those whose interest he serves immediately launched several outrageous acts of Trojan espionage which were patently designed to sabotage, frustrate and abort the Labour Party’s legal pursuit of our party’s presidential mandate at the PEPT.
4.1. First on May 19, 2023, Arabambi led his backers to carry out a naked sabotage mission to impersonate, displace and supplant the legal team which Peter Obi and the Labour Party engaged to prosecute our presidential mandate brief by presenting to the Justice Simon Tsammani tribunal his own one-man legal team to stand brief for Peter Obi. This double-agent mission was openly rejected with a query by the Appeal Court tribunal on the floor of the court.
4.2. When the above gambit failed, Arabambi launched a second mission of perfidy for his paymasters, which entailed frantic efforts to withdraw from the presidential tribunal the petition of our candidate, HE Peter Obi. Arabambi unabashedly proclaiming both within the court hall and on national TV networks that Bola Tinubu of the opponent APC, the opponent of the Labour Party’s candidate, won the February 25 Presidential Election, and that it was therefore a waste of time for our party to continue to pursue Peter Obi’s mandate recovery at the tribunal.
4.3. With the failure of Arabambi to have his Trojan lawyer pretentiously take over Peter Obi’s brief at the PEPT, as well as his campaign to withdraw Labour Party’s petition from the tribunal, Arabambi launched a desperate third blackmail expedition. This time it was to inflame and mislead the public with interviews on major TV networks and news media of the federation. In the interviews, he claimed that while Peter Obi was yet an aspirant in the early days of joining our party and he, Arabambi, was a member of the party’s presidential primary screening body, he and Peter Obi breached the laws of the Electoral Act in the process that produced Obi as our Presidential candidate. To make his vicious concoction appear believable, Arabambi indicted himself with open television “confessions” of monetary frauds which he claimed to have committed in the screening process and called on the authorities to prosecute him collaterally with other officers of the Labour Party. The apparent goal of Arabambi’s fathomless perfidy was to provide a disqualification handle to the presidential election tribunal, as well as cause integrity distress to the public image and reputation of our candidate, HE Peter Obi. Again, Arabambi’s appalling venture to crave the pleasure and peanuts of his backers fell on its face.
4.4. On yet a fourth tangent, Mr. Abayomi Arabambi went on mainstream national media and online outlets to stridently declare that the academic credentials presented by our Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, HE Peter Obi, and which he, Arabambi, participated in screening from which Obi emerged as our Labour Party’s Presidential flag bearer back in May 2022 were impersonatory credentials of our candidate’s late elder brother. This sadistic, satanic defamation by Arabambi was yet another inglorious sabotage strategem orchestrated to provide the Nigerian Supreme Court sitting on the judgment from the appellate tribunal a counter-balance to the now global scandal of countless falsified academic documents and forgery felonies ascribed to the electoral credentials of another candidate in the 2023 presidential election. How desperate, despicably treacherous and low can a human sink for transient fame and belly values. Even outhouse maggots cannot sink lower.
*Night Soil Man of Opposition*
In Arabambi’s desperate ambition to be seen as a vocal and useful night soil man of any ruling political party and belong by all means to their kitchen pantry and cake table, we expect him to concoct some new figment of his imagination to appall again and again the minds of decent, right thinking Nigerians who have been following with disgust his vulture culture of avarice and rule or ruin politics. But while he is at it, Arabambi blissfully forgets the African saying that if you sell your own brother, the buyer will never ever trust you. That no matter how much soak-away sewage and dung Arabambi empties from his soul against the Labour Party for the pleasure of his benefactors; that no matter the arrows he throws at HE Peter Obi who, ironically, is supposed to be his own Presidential candidate, his sponsors will never ever trust him but would permanently hold him in distrust and towering contempt with the dog-leash distance of a rabid dog, ensuring to keep him at arms length from their table. Time and posterity wait to serve him this truth.
In the annals of Nigeria’s, indeed entire Africa’s politics, there is no political party which approached its country’s post-election tribunal in lawful pursuit of recovering its stolen mandate and then had its own official ecstatically proclaim that it facilitated its own candidate to tender false academic credentials, including his other appalling self-indictments, all with a view to defame and subject its own candidate to disqualification. Arabambi has set that unenviable record and is continuing to commit horrid political sacrilege whose long-term consequences against his name and future are dire.
*Warning / Conclusion*
Several times during the factional incendiaries between the Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa groups, we warned Arabambi through his faction’s leader, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, who we clearly found out has never himself issued or signed a negative public statement against HE Peter Obi, neither approved one to be issued. As the Apapa faction will recall, we wrote astringently to Alhaji Lamidi Apapa on September 7th and again on September 17th, 2023, among numerous other communications, for their faction to sternly prevail on Abayomi Arabambi to discontinue his vitriolic and unacceptable diatribes against the integrity and reputation of our party’s leader, HE Peter Obi. In both correspondences cited above, which were necessarily copied to Comrade Anslem Eragbe, the Youth Leader of the Apapa faction for witness, we also observed to Alhaji Apapa that Arabambi’s “fight without object integrity and probity of purpose is like sailors’ bar fight: bloody, furious and lacerating yet without trophies, and a waste of bruises.”
In those correspondences which Comrade Tony Akeni was assigned to write on our behalf, we admonished that if the Apapa faction truly recognized Peter Obi as our party’s Presidential flag bearer and leader, they should put a leash and padlock on Arabambi’s neck and mouth, compel him to “refrain from incendiary public statements against our principal,” and to conduct himself with civilize restraint as other leaders of their faction have done.
Unfortunately, Arabambi has continued to prove that he is an irreparable political party destroyer without civilize self-control and restraint a tar that corrodes, infects and destroys anything he cannot conquer for his immediate pocket gratifications.
Finally, we wish to register here and for all time one incontestable fact. Irrespective of the ill-fated outcome of the Supreme Court judgement of October 26 on the 2023 presidential election, HE Peter Gregory Obi remains the undisputed leader of our Labour Party and the global rallying totem of modern Nigeria’s emancipation struggle, which is otherwise christened the ObiDient Movement. As we warned in our previous communications, we will not condone anyone who lays claim to membership of the Labour Party yet breaks the hedge to make false denigrating, anti-party public statements, least to mention unfounded, inflammatory or defamatory statements against our global leader, HE Peter Obi. Neither any other integrity tested leader of our party. That admonition remains valid. Labour Party is one.
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Why Nigeria Needs State Police — Senate President, Akpabio
Lifestyle Nigeria Gathered that President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has made a passionate appeal for the establishment of state police.
Speaking at a national dialogue on Security and State Police, held in Abuja, Senator Akpabio declared that the mounting security challenges across the country have made the creation of State Police to complement Federal Police compelling.
The President of the Senate appealed to the gathering to ensure that the State Police departments are insulated from politics, religion, and ethnic extremism.
He said: “In working out modalities for the state police and the security of our nation, we must not forget that security is not a privilege, but a fundamental right of every Nigerian. It is our duty to ensure that this right is upheld, that justice is served, and that the rule of law prevails.
We must build a security architecture that is robust, transparent, and accountable. If we are to set up state police departments, we must ensure that they are free from the shackles of politics, religious extremism, tribalism, and ethnicism. We must empower them to serve and protect, without fear or favour.
“As we consider this proposition, let us draw inspiration from the United States of America, a nation that has successfully implemented a system of state and federal policing. Let us learn from their experiences and adapt their models to suit our unique socio-political context.
Let us ensure that our state police forces work in harmony with their federal counterparts, collaborating to fight crime, preserve peace, and safeguard our democracy. In the USA, the FBI, the federal police body enforces federal laws and the state police departments enforce state laws. The FBI also investigates inter-state crimes. We must draw the lines because to have functional state police we must have a strong federal police.”
Akpabio who shared strong reservations about abuse of State Police as instrument of witch-hunt asked his colleagues to cooperate in building a system that is fair, just, and equitable for all.
“But let us never forget that the power of the state police should never be used as a tool of oppression or witch-hunting. Let us ensure that political powers do not manipulate the state police to silence dissent or target their enemies. Let us ensure that the influential do not exert undue influence over the state police, and that justice is blind to wealth, power, politics, or status. Let us build a system that is fair, just, and equitable for all.
“Therefore, in this hallowed hall, let us embrace this dialogue as an opportunity for unity, understanding, and collaboration. Let us rise above our differences and work towards a common goal – a safer and more secure Nigeria.
Let us use our collective efforts to build a nation that can withstand the challenges that lie ahead, a nation that can combat the monster of insecurity that currently threatens our collective well-being.“
JUST IN: Tinubu opens African Counter-Terrorism summit in Abuja
President Bola Tinubu has kicked off the African Counter-Terrorism Summit in Abuja’s Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Sunday that a high-level conference organized by Nigeria in partnership with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) will take place from April 22 to 23.
Platinumpost reported that the objective of the summit is to enhance multilateral counter-terrorism cooperation and reshape the international community’s collective response to terrorism in Africa, emphasizing African-led and African-owned solutions.
Special guests present at the security summit include: Mr Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary General, United Nations office of Counter-Terrorism; Ms Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General United Nations and Patrice Talon , President of the Republic of Benin, among others.
More details to follow…
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“God Is Nothing Without Me”: Viral Graduate Tenders Apology For His Bad Grammar
Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that a recent Benue State University (BSU) graduate, Msuega Terna Jnr, has apologized for his contentious graduation celebration post, which went viral on Facebook.
Msuega, who was celebrating the completion of his university career, posted photographs of his signing out on the Facebook page “TIV SINGLES” with a comment littered with poor language.
His now-deleted message said, “Hello Tiv shingles, celebration with me. I am a graduation from BSU.
“God is nothing without me.”
In a follow-up Facebook post on Sunday, Msuega clarified that his viral graduation post was not intended to disparage or drag his alma mater through the mud, but rather to raise publicity for himself. He said that it was intentional.
“In the said publication, I deliberately used wrong sentence to create awareness of my signing out from the university, though it was deliberate, but with no intentions of hurting anyone, a group, community or Institution.
“The publication has generated mixed reactions from users of social media, the academics, religious believers and different groups of people. “It was not intended to drag the reputation of any individual, group, community or Institution to the mud, neither was the publication to discredit God.”
He also stated that he believes in the existence of God. “I want to tender my unreserved apology for making people believe a graduate can’t express himself, doubting the reputation of my school, feeling I’m using God’s name for joke.
He also stated that he believes in the existence of God. “I want to tender my unreserved apology for making people believe a graduate can’t express himself, doubting the reputation of my school, feeling I’m using God’s name for joke
“To the best of my knowledge, I have acquired education from one of the best universities in Nigeria and I can express myself very fluently, equivocally without commiting blunders of such gravity and I’m also a religious believer that believes in the existence of God.”
Check out some of the reactions that trailed his apology below:
Ordue Edward Shagba said: “Polished English it’s. I hope this Apologies goes viral too. Congratulations.”
Aondowase Akpenwe said: “U lack the expected university trained characters assumed to be acquired by you. That’s all.”
Iorfa Madaky said: “You brought everything upon yourself, I pray your school don’t find a reason to use you as an example to put a stop to this cruise of a thing.”
L.B. Ume-Lai said: “Tswara ambi. “Shey u wan trend? “E go soon com out for newspapers. “U go explain explain tire.”
