Labour Party crisis: CNPP urges warring factions to close ranks

By Musa Baba Adamu

Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on warring factions in the ongoing Labour Party (LP) leadership crisis to find common ground and sustain its new position as a third force in national politics.

In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Willy Ezugwu, CNPP noted that “there is nothing unusual about a political party having a leadership tussle or any form of disagreement but its ability to close ranks and make compromises in the interest of the party is paramount.”

Consequently, the CNPP urged “the parties in the leadership crisis to always remember that no individual’s desire is bigger than party’s interest”, saying that “if Labour Party leaders allow external forces to control its internal affairs, the party will be the loser, especially with its new found love with majority of the Nigerian youth population.”

Continuing, it stated that “Every political party at one time or the other gets enmeshed in leadership crisis due to conflicts of interests. However, it is the responsibility of the fathers of the party to rise to the occasion and ensure that the fortunes of the party is not adversely affected.

“The overall interests of a political party must be paramount at all times as power can only be shared when it is taken.

“In the buildup to the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had a taste of such internal crisis, which eventually affected its outing in the last general elections very negatively.

“In the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the party is currently entangled in its own clash of interests over what certain interests in the party see as arbitrary micro-zoning of elective positions in the 10th National Assembly to individuals.

“It is therefore incumbent on a political party’s fathers to weigh options and rise up to the responsibility of cushioning the impact of whatever internal conflicts that may arise without allowing external influences to drive its affairs.

“Obviously, the Labour Party went into the 2023 general elections without deliberately healing its internal grievances, which initially led to the setting up of a Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee.

“Amid the then budding crisis in the party, Labour Party had constituted two committees; a disciplinary committee to handle Ogun State Executive crisis and another tagged the Labour Party Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee (LPSPCRC) to handle every other matter that has to do with “grievances and mischief within the party”.

Declaration of Tinubu cannot stand test of Law - Diaspora group declares

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

Professionals for Good Governance and Social Justice (PGGSJ), has said the declaration of President-elect, Bola Tinubu of All Progressive Congress (APC) cannot stand in court considering the amount of irregularities at the just concluded February 25, Presidential election. The group, in a statement signed by Ben Chukwu, the group’s Convener, said that based on the independent investigation carried out by the group on the outcome of February 25 Presidential election, it was observed that there were irregularities in the results released by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos, Rivers, Edo, Plateau, Borno, Kaduna, Ekiti and several other places in the country.

The group claimed that from the investigation and analysis of presidential election results of Lagos state from IREV portal Labour Party won APC with a total of 178,411 votes as against the figure declared by INEC where Labour Party Party won with 10,000 votes and it is important to note that this margin was after returning those obvious switched/altered votes to their rightful places, although most were not legible.

The group added that the results equally showed that about 23% of them are: Blurred, Mutilated, Overvoted, Absent and Unaccounted for. It is evident that APC being in control of Lagos cannot allow results they won to fall into the aforesaid categories. Hence, these are Labour Party results that have been doctored and bastardised by the APC and INEC under the supervision of security agents.

The group therefore called on all well meaning Nigerians, the security agencies and especially the Judiciary/judges to save Nigeria from inevitable disintegration and unimaginable crisis by jettisoning the corruptly announced result, upholding rule of law and restoring justice to the pained Nigerian masses.

The statement reads, “ The wave of the February 25th Presidential Election is still hovering around every Nigerian both at home and in Diaspora. Until now, many Nigerians cannot comprehend why the INEC chairman ignored every call to follow the 2022 Electoral Act as well as the INEC guidelines in announcing winners of elections. He rather enjoined all aggrieved parties to go to Court, when he could have withheld declaration and confirmed what has been uploaded to the IREV.

“INEC has displayed who they are again by conducting the worst election in the history of Nigeria. After wasting over N300 Billion tax payers money, the IREV server was switched off to make it impossible for presiding officers to upload results in real time.

“After the election and all that happened, PROFESSIONALS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (PGGSJ) began investigation into what happened during the election and who actually won the February 25th Presidential Election. While other groups have been investigating results from other states, PGGSJ chose Lagos state with the highest pooling units of 13,325. What the group discovered is a BOMBSHELL as we decided to share the information in this medium.

“From the investigation carried out it was discovered that Labour Party won APC with a total of 178,411 votes as against the figure declared by INEC where Labour

Party Party won with about 10,000 votes.

“The results equally showed that about 23% of them are: Blurred, Mutilated, Over-voted, Absent and Unaccounted for. It is evident that APC being in control of Lagos cannot allow results they won to fall into the aforesaid categories. Hence, these are Labour Party results that have been doctored and bastardised by the APC and INEC under the supervision of security agents.

“Going by the volume of alterations in Lagos results plus similar alterations already noticed in Rivers, Edo, Plateau, Bornu, Kaduna, Ekiti, Benue and several other states, it will be grave injustice, wickedness, extreme rascality and unprecedented impunity to allow the Presidential election result as announced by INEC to stand.

“We, therefore, call on all well meaning Nigerians, Security agencies and especially the judiciary/ Judges to save Nigeria from inevitable disintegration and unimaginable crises by jettisoning that corruptly announced result, upholding rule of law and restoring justice to the pained Nigerian masses.