2019: Our Presidential Candidate did not step down for Buhari….. Labour Party
The Labour party has debunked the rumour being peddled by some disgruntled politicians that the Party’s Presidential candidate has stepped down for his APC counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general election.
According to a press statement issued and signed on Monday by the party’s Director of Publicity and Media Strategy, Yinka Richards said Labour Party’s candidate in the Presidential election, Alhaji Usman Zaki is still much in the race.
He said the party’s flag bearer would dazzle Nigerians in the election as he has embarked on grassroots mobilisation across the country.
He frowned at a press statement issued by some faceless politicians in the media over the weekend saying the spread of rumour would not deter the party leadership and all the candidates into all elective positions from delivering on the programmes of the party when elected.
According to him, “’Our party frowns at speculations in the media over the weekend on the party’s decision to step down our aspiration to govern the country. We remain the only party who has the programmes for the development of the people of Nigeria and we are determined to win the 2019 Presidential election through the support of the masses in this country’ ’’.
Richards also called on the public to disregard one detective Sam Nwanti who issued a statement on behalf of the party over the weekend.
He said the person in question is not the party’s presidential candidate and was not authorised to issue any statement in that capacity as he remains unknown to the party and urged Nigerians to disregard politicians like Detective Sam Nwanti who wants to reap where he did not sow, who are impersonators, political job seekers and fraudsters.
His word: ‘’The urge for cheap popularity has led some rogues in politics like Detective Sam to issue such statements and we are not surprised that a shameless man like him could behave in such manner. He is never our Presidential aspirant talk less of being the Presidential candidate and thus, he is not authorised to make any statement on the activities of the party’’.
The Director of Media and Publicity said Labour Party has only one presidential candidate in person of Alhaji Zaki and he remains resolute in his aspiration to govern the country come 2019.
