Most of the agents went away with the result sheets of the PUs when LP failed to pay them– Arabambi

A faction of the Labour Party, led by Lamidi Apapa, has responded to the recent judgment by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal regarding the 2023 presidential election. The tribunal’s decision upheld the victory of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election, defeating other strong contenders, including Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

In response to the tribunal’s judgment, the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, expressed concerns related to polling agents. He mentioned that a majority of the agents left with the result sheets of the polling units when the party failed to pay them the promised stipend of N10,000.

Arabambi explained that from the beginning, no polling agent was paid, and he had previously highlighted the potential impact of this issue. He revealed that none of his agents received payment, and out of the over 190,000 polling units, the party claimed to have agents in only over 130,000.

In a Punch paper report, Arabambi noted that “the majority of the agents went away with the result sheets of the polling units when the party failed to pay them their stipend of N10,000 as promised. no (polling) agent was paid and I remember telling Nigerians it is something that may affect us after the election. None of my agents was paid. Out of the over 190,000 polling units, we only presented to INEC that we have agents in over 130,000. The remaining was not uploaded. Even in the 130,000 we had, no agent submitted his polling unit result to Peter Obi. We owed them N10,000 each”.

He added that even within the 130,000 units where they claimed to have agents, none of the agents submitted their polling unit results to Peter Obi, and there was an outstanding debt of N10,000 owed to each of them.

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