By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi –
The National Executive Council of the Labour Party, has sympathized with Nigerians for the poverty, unemployment, insecurity and all they have been facing saying it was as a result of “leadership incompetence” by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
This was part of the resolutions signed by the Party’s acting National Chairman, Alhaji Bashiru Lamidi Papa and acting National Secretary, Alhaji Saleh Lawal, and read to journalists by the Publicity Secretary, Arabambi Abayomi, during the Party’s NEC Meeting held on Wednesday in Bauchi.
The NEC distanced the party from the treasonable act of calling for an interim government which would see to the taking over of the government by an interim president.
It however, said it was optimistic that the stolen mandate of Peter Obi, its Presidential Candidate in the last election, would be reclaimed at the tribunal and thus, change the ugly narratives and alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians.
“That the NEC in session believes in the rule of law and shall continue to stand with our Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, to see to the successful reclaiming of our stolen mandate at the presidential election petition tribunal while noting that we will not be a party to any unlawful act to cause a change of democratic administration violently as anticipated by Barr. Julius Abure and his cohorts.
“That NEC in session distanced itself from any illegal call for an interim President and interim government of any kind and in any form, and calls on security agencies to treat any member of the Labour Party found to engage in this treasonable act as an enemy of democracy and as the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria demands.
“NEC distance the party from the call for an interim President and government urging security agencies to treat any of its members found engaging in the treasonable act as an enemy of democracy,” it stated.
It therefore, appealed to the Nigerian judiciary to, at all times, be in the part of the people by promoting acts that enhance democracy, rule of law, fundamental human rights and freedom of expression and speech by upholding the doctrine of separation of powers.
It concluded that: “Finally, the NEC in session reposed implicit confidence in ALHAJI BASHIRU LAMIDI APAPA led the National Working Committee.”
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