2023 Polls: Labour Party Hints at Imminent Rerun, Alert Members

Labour Party has alerted its members about a possible rerun of the presidential election.

National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure, claimed that they've been informed that President Bola Tinubu's All Progressives Congress (APC) led government is also getting set for a rerun.

Speaking during a virtual meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy led by Prof. Eddie Oparaoji, who is the Lap Diaspora Chairman in the United States, on Monday, July 10, Abure said members of the party should get ready to "further humiliate" APC and its government at the polls.

He said; "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.

"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."

A statement released after the virtual meeting by the party's Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, read;

"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 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 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 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 on our favour.

"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 and so that we can have a more formidable party that we can strategically position fro the downtrodden people of Nigeria."