ANSIEC List Of Candidates: LP Kicks, Alleges Impersonation Of Members

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Anambra State Chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has accused the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, ,of impersonating the Party ahead of the September 28 ,Local Council polls in the State.

This is even as the Party reiterated its earlier decision to boycott the election which it has already dubbed a disaster in waiting.

At a press briefing in Awka the State capital on Saturday, September ,14, the Publicity Secretary the Party ,Theo Egbe, raised the alarm that in a desperate bid to confer legitimacy on the Council Poll, the   Anambra State Government has masterminded the listing of APGA members as LP candidates for the proposed sham exercise.

The LP said that in the count down to the shambolic polls ,it neither sold nomination forms nor screened and conducted any primaries that can lead to the emergence of candidates.

However, the Party expressed shock and disbelief that the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, two days ago, listed some names as LP Candidates for the election.

The LP spokesman, described the listing of APGA followers as LP candidates as the height of deceit and desperation by the APGA-led Anambra State Government.

The LP, he noted, had long dissociated itself from the planned charade called Local Government Election ,and is already in Court challenging the process.

The Source reports that last week , the All Progressive Congress, APC, while officially announcing its withdrawal from the planned election, informed that it was joining LP and PDP in further subjecting the process to legal scrutiny.

The APC lauded the LP and PDP for toeing the part of honour in not participating in the election,noting that APC itself will not want to confer legitimacy on the impending fraud.

The LP spokesman maintained that the exercise scheduled for September 28, is ” mere sham” as the outcome has already been determined.

“They have conducted the election in their rooms and are waiting to announce the results” Egbe stated.

Accordingly,  the LP reaffirmed its earlier stand that it will not participate in the “illegally packaged and lawlessly commenced obnoxious Local Government election.,being midwifed by the hastily conceived and ill prepared ANSIEC.”

It insisted that the exercise going by its fraudulent trajectories, is not worthy of its participation.

“It is really very worrisome, criminally egregious and outlandishly absurd that Labour Party that sued the Commission , never sold nomination forms ,nor conducted any primary election ,and never submitted its register, not to mention submission of any list of candidates to ANSIEC was dubiously published and held out to have “sponsored” candidates for the farcical Local Government election .

“The Labour Party ,Anambra state chapter, views this conduct of ANSIEC and Anambra State Government as a criminal assault on due process and a rape of the Electoral Laws of the land ,as well as unwarranted provocation of the law abiding members of Labour Party at large .

“A careful perusal of the Commission’s list of these fangled Labour Party “candidates” reveals that the names belong to known members of the defeated Soludo faction of the APGA,  including the name of a current APGA Transition Chairman ( Orumba North LGA) Mr Nwafor Chinonso Charlesmary Casmir and that of both past and present Transition Councilors of APGA extraction.

“Labour Party still appeals to ANSIEC and Anambra State Government to save Anambra State the enormous resources clearly billed for wastage by jettisoning this ignoble proposed LG election of September 28,2024 ,and rather opt for a properly organized Anambra state Local Government election” the LP stated .