"WE HAVE ACCREDITED AGENTS IN ALL POLLING UNITS" - CHAIRMAN LABOUR PARTY

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Mr Julius Abure, National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), says the party has accredited agents in all voting units for the 2023 general elections.

On Wednesday, he told a news conference in Abuja that Nigerians should reject reports that the Labour Party lacked polling agents.

Every Labour Party fan, he claims, is a polling agent.

“I saw on social media that the Labour Party only has 40,000 polling agents.”

Hey, I am relieved that INEC has finally disclosed the number of polling unit agents. The number we submitted was more than 140, 000, while the figure posted by INEC on their website was 134, 874 polling unit agents.

“This reflects more than 73% of INEC-accredited polling unit agents, and for us, every student scoring above 70% in a test has received a ‘A.'” This contradicts the idea that the Labour Party has no agent; you know, they’ve always theorized, they initially speculated that we don’t have a structure, but I know they’re no longer thinking along those lines.

“They’ve seen that the people truly are the structure, and that no man or woman can put a stop to a good idea,” Abure added.

Abure urged Nigerians to utilize their right to vote without fear or intimidation by voting for the Labour Party.

He claims that the time has come for Nigerians to take back their country and they are ready to do so through the ballot.

“With the support of various political parties uploading 96,034 polling agents to work with us, you can see that we have more than the required number of agents.”

And you will be surprised to learn that by Wednesday and Thursday, many other political parties will be joining us and cooperating with us.

“I don’t want to make any predictions until those political parties make their pronouncements.”

Thus, when all of this is considered, we are safe in terms of voting unit agents; but, any citizen who supports the Labour Party is a polling unit agent.

We want independent citizens to serve as checks and balances on the polling unit agents we have accredited.

“Every citizen who is supporting Labour Party and Peter Obi is a polling unit agent and we expect them not just to vote, but to stand, wait and defend their votes,” Abure said.

He urged Nigerians to turn out en-masse and to support the Labour Party at the elections.

“If you are a supporter of the Labour Party, you must, therefore, be an agent for the party on the day of election. We expect that you will not only go to the polling booth to cast your vote; you have a responsibility to also defend your vote.

“We appeal to you to vote, be on standby, and keep an eye on INEC officials, security agents and on accredited party agents so that you will check what is going on.

“And you have a responsibility to query any activity that you find that will compromise the processes,” Abure told supporters.