Labour Party Commences Preparation for Presidential Rerun Election

The Labour Party (LP) has commenced preparation for a possible rerun election.

This was disclosed to journalists by Obiora Ifoh, National Publicity Secretary of the party.

According to him, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had already commenced preparation for a rerun, so there is a need for the LP to start making preparation as well.

Abure was quoted to have said:

“Rumours have it that 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 a rerun, we, too, should not be taken unawares.

“So we will need 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 us to prepare for a rerun election.

“Having said this by the side, I must say clearly that we have put all our evidences 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.”