{"id":88314,"date":"2023-05-19T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:29:36","slug":"despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court","title":{"rendered":"Despite being booed, Lamidi Apapa storms Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The acting factional National Chairman, Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, and the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 poll are currently in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court in Abuja as pre-hearing continues.<\/p>\n<p>Apapa, who was booed out of the court on Wednesday, had yesterday vowed to be in the court on Friday to represent the party.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Thursday, Apapa maintained he would return to the tribunal in Abuja, hoping that \u201cMaybe by the next one, I will be recognised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he tried to attend the proceeding on Wednesday to assert his authority as the party\u2019s acting national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Apapa was, on Friday morning, spotted seated at the back of the courtroom as opposed to the area reserved for Labour Party representatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The acting factional National Chairman, Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, and the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 poll are currently in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court in Abuja as pre-hearing continues. Apapa, who was booed out of the court on Wednesday, had yesterday vowed to be in the court on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,69,10473,254],"class_list":["post-88314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-court","tag-lamidi-apapa","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Despite being booed, Lamidi Apapa storms Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The acting factional National Chairman, Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, and the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Despite being booed, Lamidi Apapa storms Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The acting factional National Chairman, Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, and the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-19T09:31:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-19T12:29:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684479665.36.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Despite being booed, Lamidi Apapa storms Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-19T09:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-19T12:29:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\"},\"wordCount\":150,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684479665.36.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"court\",\"Lamidi Apapa\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/despite-being-booed-lamidi-apapa-storms-presidential-election-petition-tribunal-court\",\"name\":\"Despite being booed, Lamidi Apapa storms Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court - 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