James Sowole in Abeokuta
The Labour Party says all its candidates in Ogun State, will contest in all elections scheduled for this year.
The party said its candidates would contest 40 offices in the forthcoming elections, including the presidential, three senatorial, nine House of Representatives and 26 House of Assembly seats in the state.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, stated this while addressing journalists at the end of the stakeholders’ meeting held at Obi/Datti Campaign Office in Abeokuta.
Arabambi said there was no longer factions in the party.
He said all stakeholders of the party right from the national level to the ward level, had agreed to put the past behind them as advised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Arabambi flayed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for castigating Obasanjo for endorsing Peter Obi for president, and said Nigerians would be shocked by the results of the February 25 election.
“Both the PDP and APC are pained because Baba Obasanjo endorsed Obi for president. They said he has no electoral value that his action is meaningless. Why do they all visited him at different times? If his endorsement does not matter, why are they reacting to it. The will all be shocked when election result is released,” stated the party’s spokesman.
He added, “If you look at the figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the figures of those who registered after the emergence of Peter Obi, shored up because Obi has renewed hope of Nigerians. Obasanjo must have seen something unique about Peter Obi and his endorsement, was not for fun.”
