Justice shall prevail, says Julius Abure ahead of Tinubu’s inauguration

National chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has said the party will pursue its petition against the election of Bola Tinubu, president-elect, to a logical conclusion.

Abure was reacting in a statement on Sunday to the inauguration of the new president and his vice scheduled for Monday.

Abure said, ” On that fateful day, Nigerians from across ethnic, political and social divides, fired by the promises of President Muhammadu Buhari and professor Mahmud Yakubu, INEC chairman reinvigorated hope for a new political and administrative order having endured untold difficulties and rigours, in obtaining their PVC’s trooped out in their millions to cast their votes.

In various states, state governors and public officials, particularly of the APC, directly influenced the voting and threatened, abducted and tortured electoral officials.

“However, despite varying serious reports of violence, malfunctioning electoral devices and other hindrances, the voters’ accreditation and casting process, was fairly satisfactorily conducted.

“But after the counting of votes, a dark cloud engulfed the nation. It became clear that the correct password, to transmit the presidential election results, electronically and instantly, from the BVAS to the INEC IREV, had been criminally withheld, contrary to specifications of the law and contrary to repeated emphasis, directives and promises to the nation and its citizens, by professor Mahmood Yakubu and INEC officials.

“This deliberate act of criminal conspiracy was the beginning of the most bizarre and crazy rigging of elections in our national history.”

Abure alleged that votes lawfully cast for Peter Obi, LP candidate, were changed and reduced.