The Labour party has called on President Buhari to go ahead and sign the new electoral Act as passed by the National Assembly despite the pressures against it.
According to DAILY POST, the National Vice Chairman of the Labour Party South-South, Felix Reuben, speaking in Port Harcourt on Saturday said Nigerian Governors were the enemies of the country’s democracy.
This is in reaction to the governor’s position against the amendment of clause 87 in the new electoral act which allows direct primaries for electing candidates of political parties With the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike threatening to challenge the Electoral Act in court if the bill is signed into law.
Ruben said “ We have seen the enemies of democracy, the cabal that is ready to destroy democracy in Nigeria, the governors that are ganging up today trying to frustrate what the national Assembly is proposing by asking President Muhammad Buhari, not to assent to the bill. I think they are the greatest enemy of democracy in Nigeria”.
“Because they have planted their cabal, they have planted their surrogate; they have planted their boys to take over, they want to bring a goat to come and lead lions and we say no.
He should know that this is the biggest legacy he is going to bequeath to Nigerians. It is the cry of all Nigerians that democracy should be free and transparent”.
