Presidential Election: Be Alert, APC Planning Rerun, Abure Charges Obidients, LP
National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have started preparing for a rerun, in anticipation of the tribunal ruling.
He made the claim in an online meeting with a Diaspora Support group: Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy, on Monday.
The Diaspora support group was led by Professor Eddie Oparaoji, who is the LP Diaspora Chairman in the United States.
A statement by the LP National Publicity Secretary, Pastor Obiora Ifoh, quoted Abure as claiming that he had been informed of the plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government to work ahead of a possible rerun, knowing that the tide of the wind is heavily tilted against it.
The national chairman was said to have called on members of the party to be on the alert to nullify any sinister plot of the APC.
Ifoh, in the statement, quoted the LP national chairman as saying: “Rumours have it that those in government are already planning for rerun.
“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 peradventure it happens that the election is nullified though what we are asking for is 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 happened as the government is believed to be planning for a rerun, it will not also be out of place to start preparing for a rerun.
“We are very hopeful that supposing the matter gets to the higher court, the Supreme Court, 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 positioned fro the down trodden people of Nigeria, the statement reads.
The online meeting was also attended by the Director of ObiDatti Presidential Campaign, Ambassador Oseloka Obaze.
Obazee called on Obi-Datti members in diaspora to see the struggle for recovering of our mandate as a collective responsibility and one that no one can actually abandoned for any other reason
He told the Diaspora supporters of Labour party that “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 maintained that “The process is on going, the campaign to change this nation is not just an event, it is a process, a long drawn process.
The chairman of the Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy, Professor Oparaoji in address said that the group through advocacy, human rights promotion, capacity building, investment, education and healthcare support, diaspora engagement, and policy advocacy, we can play a crucial role in fostering Democratic governance, justice, and socio-economic progress in Nigeria.
