Plateau rerun: Labour Party dissociates self from plot by IPAC to stop parties from partaking in poll

Plateau rerun: Labour Party dissociates self from plot by IPAC to stop parties from partaking in poll

By Jeffrey Agbo

The leadership of the Labour Party has disassociated itself from the decision by the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Plateau State chapter to pressure political parties not to participate in the Saturday rerun election.

National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement on Thursday.

The statement said, “Labour Party shall participate in the rerun election and we affirm that we are not under any obligation to accept any of such ridiculous decision by the IPAC to stop political parties from participating in election.

“It has been established from the High Court up to the Supreme Court that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP was disqualified from participation in the rerun elections as a result of some irregularities on their part. The decision is in line with the laws of the land.

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“Therefore we appreciate the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC by holding on to the law established by all the courts including the Supreme court and by going ahead to conduct rerun in the affected constituencies.”

The LP called on all people of the Plateau North Senatorial District to come out en-masse and vote for Gyang Zi for the Senate as well as Daniel Asama who is the party’s candidate for Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency.