Election petition: APC already planning for re-run, says LP
Written by Broadstreet Admin on July 11, 2023
During an online meeting with the Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy, Mr. Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, revealed that he had received information about the All Progressives Congress (APC) making preparations for a potential re-run of the 2023 presidential election. Abure urged members of the Labour Party to remain vigilant.
The meeting took place in Abuja and was led by Professor Eddie Oparaoji, the Labour Party Diaspora Chairman in the United States. Abure explained that the ruling party was well aware that the ongoing legal challenges to the presidential election results, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, were not in their favor.
In a statement by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, Abure was quoted as calling on the party’s over 10 million members to stay alert and prepare to further discredit the APC and its government in the polls if their alleged plan fails to materialize.
He said: “Rumours have it that those in government are already planning for rerun and this is one of the support we will be canvasing from you.
“We should also be getting prepared because since all those in government are already preparing for rerun, we should not be taken unawares.
“So, we will be needing your engagement and support on this aspect if par adventure it happens today, that the election is nullified which is not what we are asking for because we are asking for an outright declaration of Peter Obi as the President of Nigeria.
“We believe strongly that we won that election given the statistics we have, given the result we have, we are not expecting anything less than the declaration of Peter Obi as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But supposing that didn’t happen as the government is believed to be planning for a rerun it will not also be out of place for us to be preparing for a rerun election.
“Having said this by the side, I must say clearly that we have put all our evidence before the court we are very hopeful that the tribunal will act in our favour.
“We are very hopeful that supposing the matter gets to the higher court, the Supreme Court, in this case, it will also act in our favour. We are keeping our hope and confidence alive.
“In nine months we are able to change the political narratives of this country and we must build on that successes so that we can have a more formidable party that we can strategically position for the downtrodden people of Nigeria.”
In his contribution to the discussion, the Director of the ObiDatti Presidential Campaign, Ambassador Oseloka Obaze, urged Obi-Datti members in the diaspora to see the struggle for recovering the party’s mandate as a collective responsibility.
