LP wants Kwara LG election postponed

Date: 2013-10-17

The Labour Party in Kwara State has urged the state government and the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission to extend the date for election into the remaining 15 local government councils of the state from October 26, 2013 to mid-January 2014.

A governorship aspirant of the party, Alhaji Abdulhakeem Amao, at a press conference in Ilorin on Wednesday said it would amount to an injustice if the election was allowed to hold on October 26. He alleged that many stakeholders and political parties had been  sidelined in the process leading to the council poll.

Amao, who spoke on behalf of the LP in the state, also said any impression or information that the party was comfortable with the KWASIEC October 26 date was untrue.

He said that holding the LG election mid-January would afford all the political parties and other stakeholders enough time to prepare and participate in the election.

He said, "We are not comfortable with the date. In Labour Party, we are out for justice and equity. October 26 election will not be suitable for anyone of us because if you are saying that you want an election, every political party that is registered must have an opportunity of partaking. It is not a thing that will be a one-side thing.

"All Progressives Congress and LP are being sidelined and other people, even in the Peoples Democratic Party, are being sidelined. The date is not suitable because we do not have all hands on deck.

"The time given to us was not enough, that is why we have only six candidates for the LG elections. We did not have ample time and opportunity. Some of our people who came to register at the last day were cut off because it was on a Friday and they could not meet up with their tax requirements in the tax office. So there was no way any honest person will believe that there is equal opportunity if the election is conducted that day."

The APC had also said that the October 26 date was not acceptable to its members.

Meanwhile, the Congress of Nigeria's Political Parties in the state said the parties that made up the CNPP were prepared for the October 26 election.

In a statement on Wednesday by its Chairman, Mr. Adebayo Lawal; and the Secretary, Mr. Femi Adeleke, the CNPP enjoined KWASIEC to go ahead and conduct the election on October 26 to "enable the people exercise their voting right of electing leaders of their choice."

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