Labour Party begins campaign for Ogun LG poll

Ahead of Local government election in Ogun state, the Labour Party has flagged-off its campaign for Chairmanship positions and 104 Councillorship Candidates.

Speaking in Abeokuta, Labour Party chairman in Ogun State, Lookman Abiodun Jagun, disclosed that the party involvement is to offer hope in place of hopelessness and progress as an alternative to retrogression.

He stated that local governments should be a centers of infrastructural development, primary healthcare service and a place for transparency and accountability but said that reverse has been the case.

“This election is a referendum on the ruling party at the state and national level, who have woefully failed the nation,” he said m

He noted that with the recent Supreme Court judgement granting full financial autonomy and independence to the Local Government, it has become expedient to vote honest and prudent people into office for rapid infrastructural development.

He stated that after the screening of candidates and a keenly contested primary election, the party were able to produce Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates for the 20 Local Government Areas in Ogun State.

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He noted that with the outcome of the Local Government election in other states across the nation, where the ruling party in the states swept the polls winning all the Chairmanship and Councillorship positions.

“Labour party candidates for the forthcoming local council election informed the party hierarchy on the plan that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) was going to rig the election in favour of the ruling party irrespective of the will of the people,” he said.

“This therefore led to the withdrawal of six of our Chairmanship Candidates and a good number of our Councillorship Candidates.”