LABOUR PARTY SAYS THE PROPOSED LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION IS ILLEGALLY PACKAGED AND LAWLESSLY BEING MIDWIFED BY ANSIEC 15-09-24
By Sadiq Aminu The Labour Party, Anambra State Chapter says the proposed Local government election in the state is illegally packaged and lawlessly being midwifed by the hastily conceived and ill prepared Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission ( ANSIEC ).
At a briefing in Awka, the party said the proposed election by Governor Chukwuma Soludo led government is not worthy of its participation, noting that LP position remains irrevocably unchanged after previous stand on the matter.
The State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Theo Egbe said the unchanging position that LP is not participating in the charade has officially been conveyed to ANSIEC and the entire people in suit No A/265/2024; LABOUR PARTY VS ANAMBRA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY & ANOR has been duly served on the commission and is still pending in Court.
According to him, the official letter to ANSIEC which was copied to the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Director of DSS and other relevant bodies, he noted that the party does not have faith, trust and confidence in both the Commission and the illegal process they adopted, for being at complete variance with due process and the Electoral Act, 2022.
Chief Egbe said it is really very worrisome, criminally egregious and outlandishly absurd that Labour Party that sued the commission, never sold nomination forms nor conducted any primary elections, and never submitted its register not to mention submission of any list of candidates to ANSIEC, was dubiously published and held out to have ‘sponsored’ candidates for the farcical Local Government Election.
The Publicity Secretary of LP, Anambra state said a careful perusal of the commission’s list of the fangled Labour Party “candidates” reveals that the names belong to known members of the defeated Soludo faction of APGA, including the name of a current APGA Transition Chairman, (Orumba North LGA) Mr. Nwafor Chinonso Charlesmary Casmir and that of both past and current Transition Councilors of APGA extraction.
The Labour Party, Anambra State Chapter views the conduct of ANSIEC and Anambra State Government as a criminal assault on due process and a rape of the Electoral Laws of the land, as well as unwarranted provocation of the law abiding members of Labour Party at large.
Chief Egbe stated that Labour party , Anambra State pledges to remain law abiding, even in the face of the glaring absurdities, illegalities and crass provocations and diligently commit to the legal pursuit of dismantling the sham branded Anambra L.G.A Council election through the law courts. I have