The National chairman of Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure, has informed its members about a possible presidential election rerun.
Abure, during his speech in a virtual meeting with the Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy, he stated that he was informed that President Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) are also gearing towards a presidential rerun.
The virtual meeting which was led by Prof. Eddie Oparaoji, was held on Monday, July 10. Abure motivated members of the Labour party, to prepare and hit the polls once again to reclaim what they lost.
Abure said;
“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 too 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 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 we to be preparing for a rerun election.”
To further cement what the National Chairman of LP has said, the party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, released a statement seeking for support from Labour Party supporters to avoid being taken unawares when the presidential rerun becomes a reality.
Obiora Ifoh in his statement said;
“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 we 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 on 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 and so that we can have a more formidable party that we can strategically position fro the downtrodden people of Nigeria.”
