The Daily Crucible | Saturday, October 8, 2022
Ogun State chapter of Labour Party(LP) has called on its members in the state not to despair over the recent release of names of candidates for the next year elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), saying it's not final but provisional
LP in a release signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi said the Party will contest all the elective positions in the next general elections in Ogun State and Nigeria
It said further that the omission is an aberation which is being challenged in the court of law, adding that the Party has already commenced the legal fireworks.
LP through its National Publicity Secretary, therefore, directed all LP candidates for the 2023 general elections that emerged through the party primaries ranging National Assembly candidates, governorship candidate to the State House of Assembly candidates to roll out their drums and start their campaigns, assuring that Justice will be done very soon to the issue.
"Contrary to ICT Abuja INEC claim that we were late in submitting names of
our candidates through their unconstitutional electronic submission platforms which is not known to the electoral act, we have approached the same court because Labour Party is a law abiding Party, we kept to the electoral guidelines, and the Constitution also gave us 90 days window to election before the door of substitution could closed .
"The electoral act is a creation of the constitution and thus superior to any guidelines that may be promogated by the Abuja ICT department of INEC which in this instance runs contrary to the electoral act and is therefore null and void to the extent of it's inconsistency
It made reference to Section 31 Nigeria Electoral Act 2022 in respect of withdrawal of candidates
"A candidate may withdraw his or her candidature by notice in writing signed by him and delivered personally by the candidate to the political party that nominated him for the election and the political party shall convey such withdrawal to the Commission not later than 90 days to the election.
"We submitted all names electronically in lines with INEC guidelines even though it's against the electoral act and constitution before the deadline, we did the needful as laid down by the law, so the omission is unwarranted.
“We are in court and the matter will be determined by the court this October in Abuja,” the party stated.
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