LP gears up for Anambra guber poll, promises fair, credible primaries

National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Julius Abure, assured on Thursday that the primaries for the upcoming Anambra State governorship election would be free, fair and credible.

He said the only way Nigeria could be better was for the country to entrench a transparent leadership recruitment process.

Abure, who spoke at the meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the LP held in Abuja, dismissed the allegation that the party was working for another political party.

He insisted that the LP had grown to be one of the largest political parties in Nigeria today.

“I want to reassure our members in Anambra State that as it is usual with our party, our primaries and congresses will be free, fair and credible.

“It has been our ideology and philosophy in this party that we must do things differently because you can’t adopt a similar approach and expect a different result. If you must get a different result, it means your approach must be different. And therefore for us in Labour Party, it is our desire to do things differently.

“This is because we believe that it is only where there is internal party democracy, where there is competition, and where people are allowed to compete, where there is no godfatherism, where the process is not skewed to particular aspirants, that the best of the bests can emerge from such a process.

“And we believe that when you have the best emerging from political parties, and of course, that is when you will have the best hands that will handle the affairs of the country. I believe we have not had our best to handle the affairs of the country and that is why we have the challenges in governance today in Nigeria.

“Labour Party is ready to change that trajectory and that is why we believe and we hold it dear to our heart that charity must begin at home. Therefore the process will be free fair and credible”, a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, quoted him as saying.

Abure also commented on the claims that the Labour Party had been working for another party, saying, “Because the rumours have been going round that the Labour Party is working for another party, I want to state it clearly that Labour Party is independent of any other political party. We can not have this beautiful party built with distinct ideology, distinct program, distinct philosophy and you will go and subsume it to the whims and caprices of another political party.”

Concerning the ongoing party registration and revalidation exercise, the chairman commended the success achieved so far, adding however that the NWC approved an extension of the deadline to May 2025, while the congresses across the wards, local government and states would now hold between June and July, this year.

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