SATURDAY POLL: Vote All Labour Party Candidates, Shun Violence – Ceekay Igara Charge Electorates
SATURDAY POLL: Vote All Labour Party Candidates, Shun Violence – Ceekay Igara Charge Electorates
Three days to the February 25, 2023 election, the Abia state chairman of Labour Party, Mr Ceekay Igara has charged Abians and entire Nigerians to vote for all candidates of the party, ensure that their votes are counted and uploaded before vacating their polling units.
Igara in his address, urged the electorates to continue upholding the vision of a better Abia state and Nigeria which Labour Party represents and also shun thuggery and violence on the election day.
The state chairman while appreciating the electorates for their support for Labour party and it’s candidates noted that the 2023 election is the time for them to take their destiny into their hands by putting all sentiment aside and vote for all the party’s candidates who according to him are most credible to deliver in their various offices of choice.
“I want to encourage us to be all law abiding ,approach the electioneering process; the threshold that is the voting process with all seriousness. All of us as Abians and Nigerians need to decide our fate and take our destiny in our hands by voting the right people who are in Labour Party and all the labour party candidates.
“I know that we are at cross road in Nigeria and also we know Peter Obi represents the epitome of hope to all Nigerians and as a result, I encourage every Abian to come out en masse on Saturday, early in the morning and donate that day to us. Stand there as early as 7am, wait for the INEC officers, all the party agents, make sure you stand there, get accredited, vote, make sure you stand there until the votes are counted. once the votes are counted and uploaded, you are at liberty to go to your house and rest” Igara charged.
He also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and security agencies to ensure that the elections are free and fair and void of violence or intimidation.
“I also want to encourage security agencies to be neutral, protect everybody including the system itself. I encourage them to remain neutral. I also encourage INEC to this time around, be fair to all manner of people, they should release materials and their officials on time, let everything that should be given to the parties be released on time so that the party can plan well.’
READ THE FULL STATEMENT BELOW:
Fellow Nigerians and Abians in particular as we are approaching the thresholds of our political campaigns, Labour Party Abia State under my leadership, we are thanking Abians and Nigerians for the massive support, acceptance and the goodwill we have enjoyed as a result of your support and followership. On behalf of the entire candidates, membership and leadership of Labour Party both in Abia and Nigeria, I want to sincerely thank you, the security agencies, INEC and more especially our national leadership for the support and shield they have given to us.
We are most grateful to Abians. I want to remind us that it is not just enough to show us this solidarity and support when we don’t know what we should do.
I want to encourage us to be all law abiding ,approach the electioneering process; the threshold that is the voting process with all seriousness. All of us as Abians and Nigerians need to decide our fate and take our destiny in our hands by voting the right people who are in Labour and all the labour party candidates.
I know that we are at cross road in Nigeria and also we know Peter Obi represents the epitome of hope to all Nigerians and as a result, I encourage every Abian to come out en masse on Saturday, early in the morning and donate that day to us. Stand there as early as 7am, wait for the INEC officers, all the party agents, make sure you stand there, get accredited, vote, make sure you stand there until the votes are counted. Once the votes are counted and uploaded, you are at liberty to go to your house and rest
secondly i want to encourage everybody to shun violence, shun thuggery. This time around, the election is a different ball game. we don’t want thugs or violence of any kind. We encourage everybody to play according to the rules, come out there and vote your choice and your choice as it were, remains Labour party because we want to bring a paradigm shift to the entire system
Thirdly, I encourage candidates who are being provoked, maligned, castigated, humiliated or harassed, I encourage you to be steadfast in what you are doing, in a very short while, it will all be over. I equally encourage all Abians to continue to give us all the support that we need in order to entrench this new paradigm that will take us from where we are to eldorado.
I also want to encourage security agencies to be neutral, protect everybody including the system itself. To a large extent, I applaud the security agencies; they have no favorable, they are what I call every government in power. I encourage them to remain neutral. I also encourage INEC to this time around, be fair to all manner of people, they should release materials and their officials on time, let everything that should be given to the parties be released on time so that the party can plan well.
Mind you this scarcity of cash could also be a blessing in disguise, let us not because of lack of cash do things that will be detrimental to the electioneering process.
Lets come together and elect fresh leadership at all level. I encourage you to do the needful, God is on our side, God bless Nigeria, God bless Abia state.
