Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress has stated that he helped Labour Party’s flagbearer, Peter Obi to emerge as the presidential candidate of LP.
Sowore made this disclosure on Monday at the 13th memorial held in honour of the late human rights lawyer and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, in Lagos.
He mentioned that the Labour Party had a legal problem while picking the candidacy of Obi, adding there were objections.
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Having figured out the problem, Sowore noted he and Senior Advocate of Nigeria and activist, Femi Falana, took legal steps to defend the LP.
“When the Labour Party ran into a problem. There was a member of the LP who insisted that the LP could not present the candidacy of Peter Obi. They had a legal problem. We went and obtain judgment in court; from the Court of Appeal, and handed it over to Falana to use it to defend the Labour Party, and by extension, Peter Obi’s candidacy. Yes! I’m just telling you that we’re in the business of saving people,” he said.
Additionally, Sowore said there were moves to “flush out Obi in Anambra State twice, Sahara Reporters saved the day. Falana on a daily basis will call me, saying: ‘I don’t know Peter Obi, but we should not allow this injustice to pass, nobody should be impeached,’ saying that as of that time, ‘Obasanjo was impeaching everybody impeachable at that time in Nigeria. That was how Obi was able to complete two tenures. So when we speak, we know what we’re saying.”
“We are saying that we have been standing with the Nigerian people but we don’t have any sense of entitlement,” Sowore again said.
