From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Labour Party (LP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of buying up opposition political parties in order to pave the way for President Bola Tinubu to be a consensus presidential candidate in 2027.
It also accused the ruling party of instigating crisis in the opposition parties and using it as an avenue to either hijack the party or lure their members into the APC, including the LP’s elected representatives citing internal crisis, thereby reducing the strength of the opposition parties.
The Director General of the LP Directorate on Mobilisation and Integration, Marcel Ngogbehei, in a statement, yesterday, claimed the APC seems to have compromised one of the major opposition parties in the North and another long time opposition party in the East.
According to him, the parties that seem to have been bought over by the President Tinubu-led government are strategic because they control one state each in their regions.
“The case in hand is the NLC Transition Committee which we suspect is an APC special purpose vehicle to hijack the Labour Party and there’s countless others in various opposition parties.
“The APC and Tinubu are making efforts to turn Nigeria into a one party system. They are busy, working out machinations and trying to buy up political parties, both in the East and in the North with the aim of weakening the opposition ahead of the 2027 general election.
“Tinubu is trying to replicate what Abacha did by pressuring parties to adopt him as a consensus candidate or field candidate who cannot give them a run for their seat. But, this will not work, Nigerians are wiser now. The poverty in the land which was brought by the APC will be a force against the party in 2027.
“Instead of focusing on delivering good governance, the APC is busy finalising schemes to buy up opposition political parties and party members just to sell their unsellable candidate to Nigerians in 2027.”
He suggested that the APC was working hard to use hunger as a weapon to get the votes of poor Nigerians in 2027.
“If you think that the APC is ready for a fair contest in 2027, you are wasting your time. They have succeeded in impoverishing Nigerians so that they can easily bribe them with cups of rice and beans and a few thousands of Naira for their votes.
“The APC has not recorded any significant achievement to convince Nigerians to vote for them in 2027, they are most likely banking on vote buying, thuggery and election rigging to win election as they did in 2023, but they will receive the shock of their lives because Nigerians are wiser now.”
Ngogbehei admonished all genuine lovers of a working and prosperous Nigeria to stand firm with the LP’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by Julius Abure and Peter Obi as they have been tested and trusted in the 2023 general elections; where they both had a graceful outings and none of them compromised. Julius Abure and Peter Obi are a sure bet for a solid 2027.
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