September 16th, 2025
Olumide Akpata, the former Labour Party (LP) candidate in the 2024 Edo State governorship election, has refuted reports going around on social media that he is leaving the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He made the refutation in a statement shared via his X handle on Tuesday, September 16, Akpata described the claims as “malicious, mischievous and utterly false.”
He wrote, “In the past 24 hours, a malicious, mischievous and utterly false rumour has been concocted in the dark alleys of social media, and unfortunately amplified by mischief-makers, alleging that I have abandoned the #NgLabour Party, the very platform on which I contested the 2024 Edo State gubernatorial election, to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is not only false but laughable.
“I state without equivocation that I have neither contemplated, discussed, nor effected a defection to the APC, and for the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of ever joining the APC.”