Admin I Monday, August 14, 2023
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Labour Party has said that it needs not employ instrument of threat and intimidation to be able to secure victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, PEPT.
Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are challenging the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 general election.
The Labour party, which was reacting to a statement credited to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC said the threat of APC to PEPT judges to the effect that there will be anarchy if President Bola Tinubu is removed is already with the judges as presented by its lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun, SAN and in the public domain.
“The attention of the Labour Party has been drawn to yet another desperate effort by the drowning ruling party to label it negatively in its desire to create disorder and tumultuous situations to validate its stolen mandate.
“Claiming that the Labour Party supporters are threatening the Presidential Election Petition Court PEPC, Justice is the height of the ruling party’s attempt to pass off blame via their orchestrated trolling efforts”, the LP said in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh.
According to Labour Party, this most recent ploy, a photograph purportedly showing a PEPT judge and some children, is sleekly designed to distract from APC’s open intimidating remarks by their counsels directed at the PEPT Justices to the effect that there will be anarchy if the PEPT rules against their client.
“The record should show incontrovertibly that it was they who promised anarchy if Tinubu is removed: only to turn around and invoke anarchy via war threats on the Niger Republic in the hope that Tinubu will not be legally removed”, the party said.
It added that Labour Party having presented its case concretely and vividly within the law, remains very confident that the justices will fulfil their statutory responsibilities based on the law and weight of evidence.
“As such LP did not need any threat, to secure the delivery of substantive justice. It is increasingly evident that the ruling party is afraid of its shadow and the truth, and is as busy fabricating and labelling the Labour Party to curry imaginary favour”, the LP added.
It called on the discerning public to disregard ‘this dubious label of LP because they know who is panicking and trying to create anarchy in the land to remain in power at all costs’.
“We, therefore wish to reiterate our belief in the sanctity of our jurisprudence and expect that justice will be served based on nothing short of what the Constitution and extant law says and not via the troll mechanism or devious acts of the ruling party that is desperate to cling to power without the People’s mandate”, Ifoh said.
