Civil society organisations aligned with the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) have staged a protest at the National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding the inclusion of LP candidates in the upcoming nationwide bye-elections.
Dozens of demonstrators, armed with banners and placards bearing messages such as “INEC, who is using you against LP?” and “Mahmood, stop destroying democracy in Nigeria,” voiced their discontent over what they described as INEC’s deliberate exclusion of their party from the polls.
“Tell INEC to obey court orders,” among others, gathered for the peaceful protest as early as 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
However, in a statement signed by Ken Asogwa, Senior Special Adviser on Media to the party’s Interim National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, the Labour Party distanced itself from the planned protest at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), describing the organisers as “impostors” and “political impersonators.”
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