Labour Party has said contrary to the position of the presidency on the 2023 presidential poll, opposition political parties lost the election because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reportedly snubbed the electoral act.
The party noted that INEC failed to upload result from the polling unit in real time as promised and in disregard to the laws guiding the election, adding that INEC by so doing, created room for that election to be rigged.
Labour Party was reacting to a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, where he asserted that while the APC was working hard to retain power in the recent elections, the combined opposition was busy telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.
Specifically the party in a statement on Friday by Obiora Ifoh, Acting National Publicity Secretary faulted the position of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying It was erroneous for him to say that opposition parties lost election because of over confidence.
“In fact, Labour Party won the election but it was brazenly stolen by APC. Mr. President is aware of the fact that APC did not win the election and that it was stolen” the statement said.
“The Labour Party is very worried and disturbed with the statement from the office of the President wherein he said that the opposition parties lost the 2023 presidential election because of their “overconfidence, complacency and bad tactical moves, and which he claimed created more problems for them.
“We want to point it out clearly to President Muhammadu Buhari that his position on the outcome of the said election was false, untrue, and it is not a true reflection of what played out during the election.
“Again, the current APC president elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t win the election, because the said election, particularly, the presidential election was manipulated and rigged beyond comprehension. So political parties didn’t loose election because of over confidence or complacency as proffered by Mr. President, APC in collaboration with the various government agencies simply rigged the election and rigged themselves into power”.
The party reminded President Buhari of the magnitude of violence, ballot snuffing, snatching and manipulations of result from the collation centres using security agencies, which included police, army amongst others as well as thugs to manipulate elections in favour of the ruling party.
