The Labour Party (LP) has said it was confident that Nigerians wouldn’t be intimidated into abandoning their legitimate, legal right to seek judicial redress to reclaim their mandate which was freely given to its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, but was brazenly stolen.
Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party, Dr Yunusa Tanko, made the statement in response to the alarm raised by the Department of State Services (DSS), in Abuja, Wednesday.
The DSS had theiugh Peter Afunanya, its Public Relations Officer, alleged that some politicians were plotting to derail democracy through demonstrations and “obtaining frivolous court injunctions” to stop the inauguration of the president-elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
Yunusa had said, “we are certain that Nigerians who want to take back their country will not be intimidated or blackmailed into abandoning a legitimate course.
“As a party, we have submitted ourselves to pursuing the course of justice through constitutional means, it will not serve as the interest of democracy collapses in Nigeria.
“We will like to ask, where was the DSS when our members and other Nigerians were being attacked, maimed and killed, especially in Lagos?
“Where was the DSS when MC Oluomo and his ilk were engaged in ethnic profiling and violence against Nigerians of a certain (Igbo) ethnic nationality over their democratic choices?
“We needed the DSS to step up its game then, but it failed. If it had done what it was supposed to, our nation would have been better for it.
“Now that Nigerians have decided to follow laid-down democratic procedures of drawing attention to injustice, warnings and threats are being issued.
“The DSS ought to have issued these warnings from the beginning to show Nigerians that this country belongs to all of us and not the personal fiefdom of an individual or a group.
“We urge the DSS to send these words of caution to those bigots who are pushing this country to the brink of disaster with their utterances and violent conduct against other peace-loving Nigerians who do not subscribe to their political views or speak their language,” he stressed.
