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Labour Party's factional leader, Lamidi Apapa, says he is willing to meet with Bola Ahmed Tinubu if he so desires.
Apapa, however, asserted that such a gathering may only be approved by Labour Party officials.
Before I honor him (Tinubu), I'll talk to the party's top brass. "If they ask me to proceed, I will do," he stated, adding that "if they ask me to proceed, it becomes our position and not my position."
The factional LP chairman spoke on Thursday, one day after a mob believed to be Labour Party supporters attacked him at the FCT Court of Appeal on the grounds that he had gone to a presidential tribunal hearing to thwart Peter Obi, the LP's presidential candidate, and his petition against Tinubu, the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in an attempt to thwart the petition.
The LP group of Julius Abure, the party's suspended National Chairman, has been at odds with Apapa and his camp.
He said during an appearance on Arise TV's "The Morning Show" that his disagreement with Abure's group is just about defending his right to serve as interim chairman of the LP and not to harm Obi's prospects of winning the trial.
Apapa continued by saying that he completely supports Obi's effort to get Tinubu's election victory overturned before the presidential tribunal.
"I have stated several times that I support Obi's mission wholeheartedly. None of them can claim to be a more devoted Obi voter than I am since my voting location and the votes I received support my desire for Obi to lead Nigeria.
"Therefore, none of them can claim to be more obedient than I am. I thus support him wholeheartedly because, without a doubt, if he wins the election and is elected president, my life would be better than it is right now."
"I prefer him (Obi) to be there," he said, "and I keep on maintaining that on Obi's mandate, I stand."
According to sources, Apapa, who has been characterized as cunning, intends to get Obi's lawsuit against Tinubu and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) withdrawn from the presidential tribunal.
"I refuse to give in to the case's withdrawal. I've mentioned this a number of times. Why should you give up on a good case when you have it?
"I oppose withdrawal because we have evidence against the APC, and that evidence must be handled in a way that leads to a logical conclusion. I firmly believe it, and I stand by it," he continued.
