A faction of the Labour Party, LP, led by Julius Abure has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of unfairly singling it out for retribution for actively supporting the party’s Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, and the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, during the 2023 general elections.
Abure made this statement at a media briefing by the
factional National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, at the party’s National
Secretariat on Wednesday in Abuja.
He also alleged that Obi and Otti had betrayed all that the
Labour Party ever stood for, stressing that the duo now take sides with INEC
which according to him disappointed Nigerians by bungling the will of the
people during the 2023 elections.
According to Ifoh, the Labour Party needed to notify
Nigerians about the recent developments in the party, especially, the efforts
by some of the leaders of the party including the former presidential candidate
of the party, Peter Obi and the Abia state governor, Alex Otti amongst others
to annex power of the leadership of the party through unfathomable means using
INEC as their tool.
He said many Nigerians still remember how the party bent
over backwards to accommodate some of the leaders when their former political
parties denied them tickets.
“The media has been awash with INEC’s counter affidavit to
the effect that the tenure of the current executives has expired which was
supposed to be a justification for the inglorious, purported
Umuahiastakeholders meeting where a caretaker committee was produced.
“You will recall that His Excellencies, Peter Obi and Alex
Otti a few weeks ago convened an illegal stakeholders meeting in Umuahia where
they handpicked some of their cronies, a 29-member caretaker committee in the
most undemocratic fashion as leaders of their faction of the party.
“They subsequently wrote a letter to the INEC on September
6, 2024, informing the commission of the purported and nonexistent leadership
crisis in the party,” he added.
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