Labour Party logo missing on NASS ballot, party calls for election postponement

The Labour Party in Lagos State has called for the postponement of the National Assembly election scheduled to be conducted alongside the presidential poll on Saturday (tomorrow).

The party said there was omission of the party’s logo in the Senatorial and House of Representatives’ ballot papers.

Chairman of the LP, Mrs Dayo Ekong, subsequently called on INEC to reschedule the election until the party’s logo was included on the ballots.

She spoke at a press conference in Lagos following receipt of the ballot papers for the National Assembly elections.

She said, “This malicious error was found this morning in Lagos by me and my team of executive members during the routine inspection of election materials.

“It was at the inspection that it was discovered that Labour Party was not listed for the election for Senate in and House of Representatives in Lagos State. This is unacceptable and a wicked way of disenfranchising Lagos electorates.

“We cannot accept this as we do not believe that INEC made a mistake but rather, a deliberate, malicious and intentional act by INEC at disenfranchising our Supporters from exercising their civic rights which is unacceptable,” Ekong said.

She added that further checks on the INEC website revealed that the list of names of Lagos Labour Party National Assembly was not uploaded “even as the list and court orders for same were duly submitted to INEC and acknowledged.”

“You will all recall how we have severally pointed out the bias displayed by the current INEC REC in Lagos State towards our party and his increasing attacks on our leaders that have constantly pointed out these biases in the past and current onslaught on our Party.

“We call on all stakeholders, foreign observers, lovers of democracy and international community to quickly wade in and call on INEC to do the needful,” Ekong said.