Video: Watch As Labour Party Factional Chairman, Apapa, Osuntokun In Face Off At Tribunal Over Seats

The acting national chairman of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, and the director general of the Obi-Datti Campaign, Akin Osuntokun, got into a minor drama on Wednesday over seats, which caused the leadership crisis plaguing the LP to spill over to the location where the Presidential Election Petition Court is located at the Court of Appeal complex in Abuja.

When Osuntokun entered the courtroom after the doors had been opened to attorneys and plaintiffs, Apapa approached him.Apapa approached Osuntokun and other prominent members of his party who were already sitting in the plaintiffs' gallery and demanded that they give up their places for him and his group.

Apapa insisted that he belonged in the plaintiffs' gallery since he was the legitimate leader of the Labour Party. Osuntokun rejected this claim, saying Apapa had no authority to occupy the seat.

To ease the mounting tension in the courtroom over the dispute between the two leaders, Josephine Ekperobe, secretary of the PEPC, had to intervene.