APC Preparing For An Election Rerun

The Labour Party has asserted that the President Bola Tinubu-led government is preparing for an election rerun.

The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure, submitted on Monday during a virtual meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy led by the party’s Diaspora Chairman in the United States, Prof. Eddie Oparaoji,

He said, “Those in government are already planning for a 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.” 

Abure, further noted that the party is hopeful that if the matter gets to the Supreme Court, the apex court will also act in their favour.