Enugu Rerun Election ‘A Sham’ – LP

The National Secretary of the Labour Party, Mr Umar Farouk, has described Saturday’s House of Representatives re-run election in Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency of Enugu State “as a sham”. Farouk called for a total cancellation of the exercise.

Umar, who led a Labour Party monitoring team to polling stations involved in the bye-elections, told journalists that “due process has not been followed, accreditation has been compromised, result sheets have been hijacked, BIVAS machines disregarded and voters not allowed to exercise their right to vote”.

The National Secretary, who addressed the press in company of the Labour Party House of Representatives candidate, Hon Dennis Agbo, called on INEC to immediately cancel elections in areas where illegalities have been reported.

He accused the PDP of using the local government vigilantes to intimidate Labour Party supporters. Agbo said that Labour Party members “are being chased away from polling booths by the local vigilantes’.

He said that it was unfortunate that INEC officials “are now taking instructions from PDP officials and allowing voting to take place in private houses.”

The state police command, Thursday, in a state by its Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, banned the participation of non-conventional security operatives during the rerun.