The Labour Party (LP) has said that contrary to speculations, it has enough polling agents to man all the polling units nationwide, including in the core northern states.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the country has 95 million voters in 176,846 polling units.
Dr. Yunusa Tanko, spokesman of the LP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), dropped the assurance on Sunday.
In a statement, Tanko punctured stories by opponents of LP that it was only active in the social media, saying, this was falsehood being peddled, as the party had foot soldiers scattered all over to “man all polling units in the North and the entire nation.
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“Opposition gimmicks to weaken the resolved minds of Nigerians to Vote Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed into power this year will not fly.”
The rest of the statement read as follows.
“The attention of the Labour Party Presidential campaign council, (LPPCC) has been drawn to yet another deceitful information circulating in the social media to the effect that our party has not submitted agents for 90,000 Polling Units in North-Central, North-East and North-West.
“We see this as yet another propaganda from the opposition to bring our rising influence down and deceive the electorate in an election year.
“We have volunteers all over the country that surpass even the number of agents required for each Polling booth so the issue of not being able to supply agents for 90,000 units is a complete fallacy designed by the enemies of progress in Nigeria.
“INEC gave a window of up to January 20th for political parties to submit their list of agents for the elections and as such cannot at this time raise concerns about any political Party not being able to submit enough agents.
“The Labour Party has a task force on the recruitment and selection of agents headed by our presidential candidate H.E. Peter Obi himself and his Vice, Datti, the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the party are all members of that committee.
“LPPCC is investigating the source of this propaganda because we know it is not definitely from the INEC.
“We appeal to the Obidient family and the teeming supporters of our party to disregard the deceitful information and focus on the collection of their PVCs which are our collective weapons to dislodge the enemies of our dear country.”
