The Labour Party (LP) 2024 gubernatorial candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has dismissed reports of defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Naija News reports that Akpata, in a post via 𝕏, described the reports of abandoning the Labour Party as mischievous and false. Akpata maintained that he neither contemplated, discussed, nor effected a […]

Mr Akpata, who joined the Labour Party in 2023 after serving as president of the NBA, is the latest politician to react to defection reports.