Labour Party petitions police, DSS over alleged illegal distribution of nomination forms

The Labour Party has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, and the Department of State Services, DSS, implicit the alleged amerciable organisation of information forms by a erstwhile nationalist president of the party, Julius Abure.

The party’s National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, made the allegation portion speaking with newsmen connected the sidelines of the party’s screening of aspirants for primaries connected Thursday successful Abuja.

Usman said copies of the petitions written to the IGP and the DSS had besides been forwarded to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

She described the alleged circulation of the forms arsenic unlawful, insisting that the enactment elected astatine the party’s Umuahia normal remained the recognised one.

“We received the quality surprisingly. It was a large astonishment due to the fact that aft the tribunal said his (Abure’s) tenure was over, we went to Umuahia, held a nationalist normal and elected caller leaders.

“INEC was determination and recognised what we did. The names connected INEC’s website are those voted for successful Umuahia, and past helium comes and starts distributing forms,” she said.

Asked if the enactment had been served with immoderate announcement of the appeal, the LP president said that the enactment had yet to beryllium served with any, regarding Abure’s alleged entreaty to the Supreme Court.