In light of the actions of the party’s lawmakers in the National Assembly, Martin Onovo, the National Conscience Party’s (NCP) 2015 presidential candidate, has responded to worries that the Labour Party (LP) has fallen short of Nigerians’ expectations.
Onovo pointed out that the fact that the LP legislators are a minority does not justify the concerns.
In an interview with The Sun, he said this.
The previous leader of the NCP emphasised that cooperation between all opposition parties in the National Assembly was necessary for any change to be made.
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According to him, “The concerns cannot be justified. Labour Party is in minority in the National Assembly and so cannot do anything democratically. The strategy is to unite all opposition parties in the National Assembly. Though they will still be a minority, they will be a more significant minority and can align with other APC factions to get a majority on some issues.”
Onovo, meanwhile, asserted that the main issue with Nigeria’s voting process is Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National voting Commission (INEC), and his staff.
He maintained that there is nothing wrong with the country’s electoral act and added that the electoral body’s personnel ought to take the fall for the nation’s unsuccessful elections.
Onovo asserted that a fraudster posing as the State Collation Officer had compiled the results of the 2023 Rivers State presidential contest.
He said, “Stop please, it is not the process that is flawed, it is Alhaji Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and his officials that are the problem. The process was violated. Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and IreV system was sabotaged.
“The 2023 Rivers State presidential results were collated by an impostor that impersonated the State Collation Officer. BBC did a report on that. The IreV results for Rivers State show that Labour Party won with a large margin but Alhaji Yakubu published that the ruling party won.”
Speaking further, he urged opposition parties to boycott any elections conducted by INEC.
“The authentic opposition parties must either boycott any elections organized by INEC or prepare super-adequate anti-violence and anti-fraud schemes to confront the ruling party and INEC at every polling unit in Nigeria,” he added.
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