The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Lamidi Apapa has alleged the crowd that mobbed him on Wednesday at the venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) was hired to kill him.
Apapa told reporters after he was released from protective custody by security operatives he was in court to assert himself as the Acting National Chairman of the party.
He said he sensed trouble after the Director-General of Obi campaign organisations, Akin Osuntokun, refused to vacate a chair reserved for chairman of the party.
“I went to him and inquired to know on what capacity he was sitting on the seat. I told him that since I am in court today, I am the right person to sit on that chair.”
On how he was mobbed, Apapa, said: “They pounced on me, removed my cap and I am very sure that if not that you people (journalists) were there, I would have been dead by now.”
He alleged Obi was aware he would be attacked, stating that members of the presidential campaign group of the party in a meeting on Tuesday to broker peace among the warring factions, vowed to deal with him should he attend the court session.
“They threatened that if I appear in court that something would happen,” he stressed.
He also denied he collected N500million to scuttle Obi’s petition against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
