Declaring a plot by the management of Labour Party to rig the Tuesday ward delegate election anticipated to select the celebration’s prospect in the Edo State 2024 governorship election, among the leading candidates, Olumide Akpata has actually petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to call the celebration to order.
Olumide Akpata in the petition to the INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu declared to name a few that the Labour Party has as at Sunday, February 18, 2024 showed any genuine efforts towards carrying out a totally free and reasonable delegate election.
Olumide Akpata stated that the inactiveness of Labour Party has actually sustained conspiracy theories of a plot to rig the election towards favouring a specific unnamed candidate.
He stated:
Attention: Prof Mahmood Yakubu
Dear Sir,
IMMEDIATE CONCERNS OVER THE LACK OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE LABOUR PARTY FOR THE EDO STATE GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES.
I compose to you in my capability as a candidate for the Edo State gubernatorial ticket on the platform of the Labour Party (“LP” or “the Party”)The function of this letter is to give your attention the absence of readiness and openness surrounding the Labour Party’s prepared primaries to produce a gubernatorial prospect for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo State.