Labour Faults Process Of Ongoing Polls, Threatens To Challenge Results In  Court
Labour Faults Process Of Ongoing Polls, Threatens To Challenge Results In  Court

Labour Faults Process Of Ongoing Polls, Threatens To Challenge Results In  Court

Labour Faults Process Of Ongoing Polls, Threatens To Challenge Results In  Court

The Labour Party has protested the process of the conduct of the ongoing presidential/national assembly polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The party threatened to head for court to challenge the process and the results of the polls.

National Secretary of the party, Umar Ibrahim in a statement on Sunday among others accused INEC of failing to deploy staff and material to areas regarded as the stronghold of the party.

Ibrahim also said although the party made inroad with high number of votes in most parts of the north, members of the party were prevented from voting.

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however, In some cases, he said Labour Party’s members were chased away from polling units or ballot boxes destroyed and papers destroyed, mostly in Lagos, Rivers, Bayelsa, Kano, Yobe and Edo States.

Farouk called on the party members to be calm, and remain law-abiding.

He asked them to mobilise more for the next round of elections, as the party takes steps to challenge the outcome of the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections.

However, Kaduna State government has banned any form of violence in the State over the outcome of the ongoing Presidential/National Assembly polls.

It reminds people in the state that the process of election in Nigeria is vested in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The state internal security and home affairs commissioner, Samuel Aruwan in a statement on Sunday said there should be no protests over the results of the polls.

The state government urged people in the state to preserve the atmosphere of calm prevailing in the state.

It warned that any act capable of disrupting public peace in the state would be severely dealt with by security agencies.

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