The embattled factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Basiru Lamidi Apapa, has described the attack on him at the presidential election tribunal by angry youths as disrespectful.
Apapa spoke at a media briefing after his attack at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday.
He therefore called on the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi to objectively wade into the crisis rocking the party.
The media briefing was attended by the deputy National Chairman of the party in the north Mike Ayuba Auta, National Publicity Secretary Olufemi Abayomi Arabambi and one of the women leaders Rukayat Salihu Umar,
He said that what happened at the Presidential court in which fracas broke out in the presence of Peter Obi, was disgraceful and a test of Obi’s leadership.
Apapa said that the leadership crisis would have been put behind them if the presidential candidate had respected the order of the Federal Capital Territory High Court which ordered Julius Abure and three others from parading themselves as National Officers of the party over their indictment for forgery and perjury.
Tracing the genesis of the leadership crisis, Apapa said that immediately after the order of the court was served on the party, he was unanimously selected in an acting capacity as the National Chairman of the party.
