With the September 28 date for the Anambra State Local Government election days away, it has become glaring clear that Labour Party, LP, will not be taking part in the election.
This is coming on the heels of the support by the newly inaugurated 29-member National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party, calling for a boycott of the election.
The LP National Caretaker Committee, headed by former Finance Minister Senator Nenadi Usman, has thrown its weight behind the growing calls for members to pull out of Saturday’s local government election.
The Committee alleged violations of the Electoral Act by the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission as reason for the boycott.
Recall that last week, the LP spokesperson in Anambra, Theo Egbe, had threatened that LP would boycott the forthcoming September 28, LG poll.
Egbe hinged LP threat on the controversial list of qualified LP candidates published by ANSIEC. The spokesman had insisted that the list did not emanate from them.
According to Egbe, the party neither conducted any primaries to nominate candidates nor submitted any names to the State Electoral umpire.
Supporting the State LP, the Usman-led Committee, via a statement issued on Wednesday, backed the call. It urged the Anambra LP executives led by its Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Emeh, to pull out of the Local Government election.
The statement read, “The National Leadership of Labour Party is aware and is in total support of the position of Labour Party Anambra State led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh (Chairman) and Okoli Akirika (Secretary) and other stakeholders. That LP is not participating in the proposed Anambra State Local Government Election scheduled to hold on 28/9/24 based on violations of the Electoral Act and Nigerian Constitution.
“We are also aware that the Labour Party is already in court in Suit No A/265/2024 Labour Party vs Anambra State House of Assembly. And another suit No FHC/CV/AWK/223/2024 Labour Party vs ANSIEC & 14 others challenging the procedure for the proposed LGA election. And never sponsored any Candidate to contest the questioned Anambra State LGA election.
“The National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party hereby confirms that we have not constituted any Caretaker Committee in any State of the Federation. And that our party in Anambra State is presently led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh and Okoli Akirika. This is for official and record purposes.”
source: Punch
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