I Must Be Authorized By The Party Executives Before Meeting Tinubu For Dialogue – Lamidi Apapa

The Labour Party factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa has come out to give grounds on which he would honour an invitation for dialogue from the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.

He recently revealed this while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, he would have to consult the executive of the party before honoring Tinubu, and he will not go ahead to give the APC leader an audience until he is authorized to.

Lamidi added that the allegations of bribe-taking are very much untrue as well because he is not that type of politician.

His words, “Before I honour him, I will consult the executive of the party, so if they ask me to go ahead, I will do. If the executive says go ahead it becomes our position.

“It’s not going to be my position. If they say go and see him or we are going to see him, it becomes the position of the party not the position of Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Apapa.

“All of us will collectively go and see him. That is if we have the mandate of the house that we are going to see him.”

“On the allegation of bribe-taking, it’s not true. If you have evidence to prove, bring your evidence that I have collected money or we’ve collected money from anybody. It’s absolutely untrue.”

“On Peter Obi taking sides, I don’t want to expose him, but he deserves to be exposed. Sometime ago, in one of the interviews he (Obi) granted, he said he does not know me at all.”

“I have been trying to cover him, but he does not deserve it. The reasons are this: This is a man, during his primary in Asaba, I did the opening prayer. And I was not a young officer. I was the deputy national chairman of the party. I have been 21 years in this party. I have held many positions in this party to the level I am today.”

“Obi’s first campaign started in Benin. I was in Benin with him. And we used his aircraft from Benin back to Abuja–a chartered plane. Not only that, but when he came to Ekiti (Afe Babalola University), I led the team that hosted him on that campus. We were there for over two hours. I led the team to the palace. And he doesn’t know me?”