The Labour Party (LP) has guaranteed its members and supporters that it will see their petition against the election of President-elect Bola Tinubu through to a logical end before the May 29 inauguration.
The handling of the February 25 presidential election, according to Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, is a disaster for all Nigerians.
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However, Abure asked all Nigerians and party followers to continue expressing their sentiments, feelings, and grievances within the bounds of the law.
He said;
On that fateful day, Nigerians from across ethnic, political, and social divides, fired by the promises of President Muhammadu Buhari and INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, reinvigorated hope for a new political and administrative order having endured untold difficulties and rigours, in obtaining their PVC’s trooped out in their millions to cast their votes.
In various states, state governors and public officials, particularly of the APC, directly influenced the voting and threatened, abducted, and tortured electoral officials.
However, despite varying serious reports of violence, malfunctioning electoral devices, and other hindrances, the voters’ accreditation and casting process, was fairly satisfactorily conducted.
But after the counting of votes, a dark cloud engulfed the nation. It became clear that the correct password, to transmit the presidential election results, electronically and instantly, from the BVAS to the INEC IREV, had been criminally withheld, contrary to specifications of the law and contrary to repeated emphasis, directives, and promises to the nation and its citizens, by Professor Mahmood Yakubu and INEC officials.
This deliberate act of criminal conspiracy was the beginning of the most bizarre and crazy rigging of elections in our national history.
Speaking further, the Labour Party national chairman alleged that votes lawfully cast for the party’s candidate, Peter Obi, in the presidential election were changed and reduced.
Abure added that the party, as a law-abiding and responsible one, has taken the matter before the presidential election petition tribunal, in trust and hope for justice.
He said;
As a law-abiding and responsible political party, and conscious of the overwhelming support we enjoy across the country, we have taken the matter before the presidential election petition tribunal, in trust and hope for justice, and we will not comment further.
