Abure to LP members: Be prepared for presidential election rerun

The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, says he has been informed of the plans by the All Progressives Congress-led government to work ahead of a possible rerun of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.

Abure, however, called on all the members of the party to be on the alert and get ready to further humiliate the APC-led government in the polls if the alleged plot materialises.

The LP National Chairman stated this during an online meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy led by Prof. Eddie Oparaoji, who is the Labour Party Diaspora Chairman in the United States, on Monday, July 10, 2023.

Abure 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 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.

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“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 in our favour. And 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 from the downtrodden people of Nigeria.”

On his part, the Director of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Ambassador Oseloka Obaze, called on the LP members in diaspora to see the struggle for “recovering of our mandate as a collective responsibility and one that no one can actually abandon for any other reason

Great countries of the world are built by the citizens of the country and I think we have in the diaspora enormous human capital.”

“What we need to do is to be able to harvest them bring them home and make Nigeria to be a great place,” he added.

The Star