The newly inaugurated 29-member National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party, headed by former minister, Nenadi Usman, has thrown its weight behind the growing calls for members to pull out of Saturday’s local government election over alleged violations of the Electoral Act by the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission.
Last week, the Labour Part spokesperson in Anambra, Theo Egbe, announced the plan to boycott the forthcoming September 28, Local Governmet election.
Egbe hinged their threat on the controversial list of qualified LP candidates published by ANSIEC, which he said did not emanate from them.
The party claimed that it neither conducted any primaries to nominate candidates nor submitted any names to the state electoral umpire.
Reacting via a statement issued on Wednesday, the Usman-led committee of the Labour Party backed the call by the Anambra LP executives led by its Chairman, Ugochukwu Emeh, for members to pull out of the local government election.
Part of the statement read, “The National Leadership of Labour Party is aware and is in total support of the position of Labour Party Anambra State led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh (Chairman) and Okoli Akirika (Secretary) and other stakeholders that LP is not participating in the proposed Anambra State Local Government Election scheduled to hold on 28/9/24 based on violations of the Electoral Act and Nigerian Constitution.
“The National Caretaker Committee of the Labour Party hereby confirms that we have not constituted any caretaker committee in any state of the federation and that our party in Anambra State is presently led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh and Okoli Akirika. This is for official and record purposes”.
However, the embattled national chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure and the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh, have declined to speak elaborately on the issue.
