If We Must Field a Presidential Candidate, the Candidate Must Win-Labour Party

The Labour Party has said that the party did not field any Presidential Candidate to Independent National Electoral Commission because if it must field any candidate, the candidate won’t merely participate in the elections but win.

Mr. Kayode Ajulo, National Secretary of LP while speaking with journalists at the INEC headquarters said “LP as at the close of submission of candidates to INEC did not field presidential candidate. This is not an oversight but part of our strategies and principles as a socialist and realist party. If we must field a presidential candidate, we must field the candidate to win and not to merely participate in the election as some parties are doing.

“Our conditions hinged on our principles and ideas must be met for anyone to be our presidential candidate, it is more of feasibility test of which those that approached us failed. As it is, what we would have done is to set up a committee that will scrutinise all the presidential candidates as presented by other political parties and make recommendations to the leadership of the party on the candidate to endorse.

“Certainly our voice will count in choosing the next President for Nigeria. We are the beautiful bride in Nigerian politics; we are being wooed by President Goodluck Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as other presidential hopefuls. As mentioned earlier, we will do the needful, we shall do the desirable, we are accountable to the people and we shall reflect their aspiration in our decision which will be made known at the appropriate time.”

He also urged Nigerians to rise up and change any government they want out, he said Elections are around the corner and politicians have come with fake promises and gift items to hoodwink the people. The Nigerian masses have what it takes to vote out such persons or their cohorts from power. Power belongs to the people and all over the world, when the people rise in unison to say ‘it is enough’, they change any government they want out.”