The National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure has lamented that the last presidential election has shown Nigeria is sliding towards a dictatorship.
Abure made the remark while accusing the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government of attempting to suppress its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
He noted that the verdict of the Supreme Court regarding the presidential election has shown that the executive has hijacked the judiciary and legislature.
He stressed that Nigerians have thrown away the lessons of their forefathers within a short space of time.
In a statement by the Labour Party chairman, he alleged that the party has it on very good authority that the federal government may have marked some Labour Party’s key leaders, especially the chairman and the Presidential candidate Peter Obi in particular for vilification, in order to suppress the party, to suffocate the team and its goal of a new Nigeria.
He also noted that the planned persecution, intimidation, suppression and harassment of party leaders using security agencies and all other government institutions will be definitely defended.
Abure urged LP’s members and the Obidient family to be vigilant and brace up for the challenges ahead, stressing that the struggle for a New Nigeria will certainly be tortuous and hard.