For going to court, police, thugs working for APC stormed our secretariat, damaged our fence, doors, burglaries, sacked our workers – Labour Party

 Emmanuel Thomas I Friday, April 7, 2023

 ABUJA, Nigeria – Thugs and policemen believed to be working for the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC on Thursday invaded the secretariat of the Labour Party in Abuja, pulling down the fence, burglaries, doors and windows, the party has said.

The party said the APC is doing all these simply for challenging results of the election at the tribunal. 

He said that the Labour Party is only a political party which is contesting for power, adding that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC having conducted election ranked “us third, a position we have rejected and have approached the Tribunal to contest. That is our only offence”, Julius Abure said in a statement.

“The Invaders who are armed reportedly pulled down the fences, burglaries, doors and window to have access to our Secretariat and in the process sacked workers and party members who were at the Secretariat”,  national chairman of the party, Mr. Julius Abure said in a statement.

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He said the agenda of the thugs and policemen was to inaugurate an illegitimate executive which has been chosen for them by their sponsors.

“This incident is coming days after a similar invasion in our Imo state Secretariat which up till now is still being occupied by the agents of the Imo state government”, he said, adding that only yesterday, its Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi through the Presidential Campaign Council alerted Nigerians of plot to hound him out of the country over APC’s covert plot in collaboration with some security agents to frame him up allegedly on matters bothering on treason.

“We therefore call on President Muhammadu Buhari to call his party, the APC to order and also rein then in from using unorthodox means to suffocate political structures in Nigeria.

“A court of competent jurisdiction only yesterday ordered that I, Julius Abure remains the National Chairman, and should not be restrained from performing my duties, it therefore baffles me why the Nigerian Police should allow itself to be used to perpetrate illegalities”, the statement added.

The Labour Party advised the Police, APC and their sponsors to play by the rules.

“We will no longer tolerate the often intimidation and deployment of brute forces against the party and their personnel. We demand they put a stop to abuse of power and respect the rights and privileges of other political parties, particularly, the Labour Party to contest for power”, the party said.