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LP national caretaker committee backs boycott of Anambra LG election

Egbe hinged their threat on the controversial list of qualified LP candidates published by ANSIEC, which he said did not emanate from them.

The party claimed that it neither conducted any primaries to nominate candidates nor submitted any names to the state electoral umpire.

Reacting via a statement issued on Wednesday, the Usman-led committee of the Labour Party backed the call by the Anambra LP executives led by its Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Emeh, for members to pull out of the local government election.

The statement read, “The National Leadership of Labour Party is aware and is in total support of the position of Labour Party Anambra State led by Chief Ugochukwu Emeh (Chairman) and Okoli Akirika (Secretary) and other stakeholders that LP is not participating in the proposed Anambra State Local Government Election scheduled to hold on 28/9/24 based on violations of the Electoral Act and Nigerian Constitution.

“We are also aware that the Labour Party is already in court in Suit No A/265/2024 Labour Party vs Anambra State House of Assembly and another suit No FHC/CV/AWK/223/2024 Labour Party vs ANSIEC &14 others challenging the procedure for the proposed LGA election and never sponsored any Candidate to contest the questioned Anambra State LGA election.