Labour Party, LP, in Lagos State has announced that its legal team is set to challenge the process, conduct and outcome of the recent council elections in court.
Its Chairperson, Pastor Dayo Ekong, disclosed this during a news conference held at the party’s secretariat yesterday in Lagos.
She stated that the party would not remain silent in the face of alleged electoral malpractices and irregularities observed during the exercise.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that LASIEC conducted elections on July 12 for 57 chairmanship and 376 councillorship positions in the state.
NAN also reports that the APC secured all 57 chairmanship seats and won 375 of the 376 councillorship seats contested.
Ekong said, “The Lagos council elections were not democratic. They were a descent into darkness, designed to subvert the people’s will.
“It was not a contest of ideas, but a blatant attack on the electoral process and democratic norms.
“These irregularities were not glitches; they were deliberate tools used to suppress the electorate and distort the outcome.”
She vowed that LP would use all legal and peaceful means to challenge what she described as a sham election.
“We owe this to every disenfranchised voter, every citizen silenced or intimidated, and all Nigerians who still hope for a better nation,” she said.
Ekong added that the legal team was compiling evidence to support their case and urged the judiciary to meet the demands of justice.
She listed alleged malpractices: voter inducement, thuggery, fake accreditation, ballot stuffing, disenfranchisement, and missing logos at polling units.
Also mentioned was the absence of election officials and materials at several polling centres across the state.
