BREAKING: Labour Party Commences Preparation for Presidential Rerun Election

The Labour Party (LP) has commenced preparation for a possible rerun election.

This was disclosed to journalists by Obiora Ifoh, National Publicity Secretary of the party.

According to him, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had already commenced preparation for a rerun, so there is a need for the LP to start making preparation as well.

Going further, he insisted that the national chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure, is already aware of the development.

He added that Abure also called on the over 10 million members of the party to be on the alert and get ready further to humiliate APC and its government in the polls.

Abure was quoted to have said:

“Rumours have it that those in government are already planning for a rerun, and this is one of the support we will be canvasing from you.

We should also be getting prepared because since all those in government are already preparing for a rerun, we, too, should not be taken unawares.

“So we will need your engagement and support on this aspect if par adventure it happens today, that the election is nullified, which is not what we are asking for because we are asking for an outright declaration of Peter Obi as the President of Nigeria.

“We believe strongly that we won that election given the statistics we have, given the result we have, we are not expecting anything less than the declaration of Peter Obi as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“But supposing that didn’t happen as the government is believed to be planning for a rerun, it will not also be out of place for us to prepare for a rerun election.”

The LP also insisted that following their outing at the tribunal, the outcome of the presidential election petition tribunal will come out in favour of Obi.

Source: Politics Nigeria

FG arraigns PDP’s Adebutu, 9 others for vote buying

The Federal Government on Monday arraigned the Ogun State governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2023 election, Ladi Adebutu and nine others before an Ogun State High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, for vote buying.

Adebutu, who was charged in absentia, left the country in April this year.

The All Progressives Congress (APC), through its Ogun State Chairman, Chief Yemi Sanusi, had written a petition to the Inspector General of Police over the vote-buying allegation, which was investigated by the State Criminal Investigations Department Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Upon conclusion of investigations, the Federal Government through the Director of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice filed criminal charges against Adebutu and his co-defendants at the High Court sitting.

The case was initially adjourned till Monday, 10th of July 2023, by Justice Abiodun Akinyemi due to the inability of the court’s process servers to serve Adebutu and his co-defendants with the information sheet.

However, as at the time the matter was called on Monday, Ladi Adebutu remained at large, while the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 10th Defendants in persons of Ogunbona Hammed, Tiamiyi Waleed, Egunsola Owolabi, Sanni Adejoke and Malik were present.

They pleaded not guilty to all the four counts charges preferred against them and their counsel Muyiwa Obanewa subsequently urged the court to grant them bail.

The prosecuting Counsel, Rotimi Jacobs while noting that Ladi Adebutu is still on the run, said he was not opposed to the granting of bail to the defendants.

Source: Vanguard