The Labour Celebration (LP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of shopping for opposition political events forward of the 2027 basic election to pave the best way for President Bola Tinubu to emerge because the consensus presidential candidate for all political events.
The opposition social gathering additionally accused the ruling social gathering of instigating disaster in different events, utilizing it as an avenue to both hijack or lure their members, together with LP elected representatives into the APC.
Director Common of Labour Celebration Directorate on Mobilisation and Integration, Marcel Ngogbehei, made the allegation in an announcement the place he claimed to be in possession of knowledge that the APC “appears to have compromised” one of many main opposition events within the North, and one other within the East.
Doing this, the LP stated the APC was sponsoring inside disaster inside its fold to cut back the energy of the opposition events.
“The case in hand is the NLC Transition Committee which we suspect is an APC particular objective automobile to hijack the Labour Celebration and there’s numerous others in numerous opposition events,” he stated.
Ngogbehei stated that the events that appeared to have been purchased over by the President Tinubu-led authorities are very strategic as a result of they management one state every of their areas.
“The APC and Tinubu are making efforts to show Nigeria right into a one-party system. They’re busy, figuring out machinations and attempting to purchase up political events, each within the East and the North, with the purpose of weakening the opposition forward of the 2027 basic election.
“Tinubu is attempting to copy what Abacha did by pressuring events to undertake him as a consensus candidate or area candidate who can not give them a run for his or her seat. However this won’t work, Nigerians are wiser now. The poverty within the land which was introduced by the APC shall be a pressure towards the social gathering in 2027.
“As a substitute of specializing in delivering good governance, the APC is busy finalising schemes to purchase up opposition political events and social gathering members simply to promote their unsellable candidate to Nigerians in 2027”, Ngogbehei stated.
Moreover, the Labour Celebration additionally asserted that the APC is working arduous to make use of starvation as a weapon to get the votes of poor Nigerians in 2027.
“In the event you suppose that the APC is prepared for a good contest in 2027, you might be losing your time. They’ve succeeded in impoverishing Nigerians in order that they’ll simply bribe them with cups of rice and beans and few hundreds of Naira for his or her votes.
“The APC has not recorded any important achievement to persuade Nigerians to vote for them in 2027, they’re most definitely banking on vote shopping for, thuggery and election rigging to win election as they did in 2023, however they may obtain the shock of their lives as a result of Nigerians are wiser now”, he added.
Ngogbehei admonished all real lovers of a working and affluent Nigeria to face agency with the social gathering’s Nationwide Working Committee led by Barr Julius Abure and its former presidential candidate within the 2023 election, Peter Obi.
He famous that the pair has been examined and trusted within the 2023 basic elections “the place they each had a sleek outings and none of them compromised. Bar Julius Abure and Peter Obi are a positive wager for a stable 2027.”