In a fast response to the federal government’s stance on the European Union’s dissolution over the 2023 election, the Labour Party referred to the President’s statement disparaging the study as “medication after death.”
The EU study was one of several foreign observers who said that the election was manipulated in favour of the governing party, according to a statement from the party signed by Pastor Obiora Ifoh, National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party.
“The leadership of the Labour Party has observed with dismay the statement by the Federal Government disparaging the European Union’s judgement on the 2023 General Election whereby it questioned the procedures by which the result was reached,” the statement’s opening line says.
“We see this Federal Government face-saving manoeuvre, which comes days after the report’s submission, as weak and after-death medication.
The administration will find it interesting that the European Union’s report is only one of several from other foreign observers who have referred to the election results as a fraud and an exercise that did not represent the majority of Nigerians’ wishes.
“The Labour Party supports the stance taken by the EU monitoring mission. We have long maintained that the APC and its candidate were the major beneficiaries of massive election rigging.
What the FG is claiming is only an afterthought and an obscene attempt to hide the truth. Even those who are blind or deaf may hear and understand that this election was rigged.
Even the deaf and the blind can hear and feel the huge bits of evidence around them. We only hope that the court would administer justice without partiality or fear for the country and future generations.
No amount of slander, denial, or argument will alter the reality that the party in power lacks the voters’ support. “Nigerians already know the genuine victor of the 2023 presidential election.
“We must also keep in mind that whatever stance INEC has adopted, it has done so actively in collusion with the Federal Government to mislead the voters and demonstrates that INEC is in no way autonomous.
“We are aware that the Commission’s decisions are subject to the whims and fancies of the administration. Nonetheless, Nigerians turn to the legal system for justice. That is our current situation, Obiora said in the statement.
