The Labour Party (LP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to hijack its structures ahead of the 2027 elections. The party recently revealed that the APC is currently infiltrating its ranks to steal all of its structures ahead of the forthcoming polls.
Speaking during a telephone interview with Sunday Vanguard, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Tony Akeni, said that information reaching the LP is that APC is currently positioning its moles to take over its structures via the scheduled party congresses at the ward, local government, state, zonal and ultimately the national level.
According to him, after failing to use LP’s former chairman Julius Abure to distract the party from its rebuild plans, APC’s next line of action is to get a seat at the Labour Party’s table to continue from where they stopped.
He stated that the recent by-elections, which were held in 16 out of the 36 states, were proof of the APC’s manipulation of the ongoing voter registration exercise.
“We have been made aware of the heinous plot by the ruling APC to infiltrate our ranks at all levels to derail our forthcoming congresses.
In the event that fails, they plan to get a seat on our party’s table to continue from where they stopped after failing to use our former National Chairman, Julius Abure, to distract us from our goal of rebuilding our party.
Nigerians are also aware of what the current administration has turned our institutions such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into.
We all out witnesses to what transpired during the by-elections which held in 16 out of the 36 states recently and the manipulation of the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise.
Our nation cannot afford to have a repeat of the era where the American boxer Mike Tyson, the late pop star, Micheal Jackson and Lionel Richie appear on our voters register.
As a party, we will continue to urge Nigerian voters to be vigilant. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price we all must pay to protect our democracy.
The body language of INEC as presently constituted gives it away as an institution which is only ready to pander to the whims and caprices of the ruling party.
We can only pray that whosoever is coming into office after the tenure of the current INEC boss expires in November or December is not going throw the confidence of Nigerians down the drain,” he said.
Speaking on who the next INEC chairman should be, Akeni emphasised that the individual must be fair-minded, God-fearing and incorruptible.
