From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja
National chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has expressed sadness over what he claims was an organised onslaught on its members in several states and called on Nigerians to pray for the party.
He spoke when he received a delegation of Interfaith clerics, at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja, yesterday. The clerics, comprising Bishops and Imams from Abuja, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and other states, visited LP to pledge support for the party’s candidates and pray for their victory in the 2023 general election.
“I want to say that since I have been the leader of Labour Party, today is my best day. I say so because this prayers are coming at the nick of time. We are already under serious attacks. Our followers are under attacks, and just yesterday, we were telling ourselves that we were going to go public to appeal to Nigeria’s religious leaders to pray for us.
“Since we started this movement, people thought it was a joke. But now they have seen that it’s no longer a joke. Initially they said we had no structure. Now they have seen that human beings are our structure. So when they are in their closets, it is Labour Party they are discussing, and we are getting information that they are going to fight us, they are going to raise guns. They have designated some states that they want to start fighting our members. As I speak to you, they have been invading some of our members homes in Lagos. We have had attacks in Akwa Ibom, in Ebonyi, Enugu and several other states. And that was why we told ourselves yesterday immediately we rose from the presidential council meeting, that we were going to appeal to Nigerians to pray for us because we know for sure that the time of God has come, the time of the people have come.”