The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party has released a statement distancing itself from calls for an interim government and agitations that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, not be sworn in on May 29, pending the resolution of the petitions before the presidential election tribunal.
According to the Labour Party faction, swearing in Tinubu on May 29, “may not have any impact on the ongoing legal tussle on the presidential election involving our party, APC and INEC.”
The Labour Party, in a statement made available to The Punch by the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, argued that the Electoral Act and the Constitution of Nigeria do not provide room for a vacuum, “so whether the President-elect is sworn in or not, there is right to remove him legally if it is found out that he was not duly elected.”
