The national leadership of the Labour Party has described the statement by the federal government that faulted the report of the European Union on the 2023 elections, as face-saving measure, feeble and medicine after death.
The party was reacting to the statement from the presidency, saying it noted with dismay the statement discrediting the European Union’s conclusion on the 2023 general election wherein it faulted the modalities by which the conclusion was reached.
The party said the European Union’s report is only one out of numerous submissions by other international Observers who have described the outcome of the 2023 presidential election as an exercise that did not reflect the will of the majority of Nigerians.
The Labour Party described the government’s reaction as an ‘afterthought and a shameless’ effort to mask the obvious.
“Even the blind can see, the deaf can hear and they know this election was manipulated”, the party said.
LP further said that Nigerians already know the true winner of the 2023 presidential election and no amount of slandering, denial, or rebuttal can change the fact that the party in power has no mandate of the electorate.
The party expressed hope that the judiciary will dispense justice without fear or favour in the interest of the nation and posterity in its petition challenging the outcome of the elections at the Presidential Election Petition Court.
A statement signed by the party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, also decried what it described as lack of independence of the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), which it added is in active connivance with the Federal Government.
“The Commission’s action is at the whims and caprices of the government and we know it. But Nigerians looking to the Judiciary for justice. That’s where we stand”, LP said.
