Lagos State chapter of Labour Party (LP) has said it is yet to officially agree on who will be its governorship candidate for the 2023 general elections in the state
The party stated that it would agree on who will be the party candidate before August 12, 2022 which is the “window” allowed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for final submission of party candidates.
Chairman of the party, Comrade Olukayode Salako, made this known at the unveiling of the 24- member new Executive Committee of the LP in the state headed by him.
He said the search for the party’s governorship candidate in the state was “work in progress.”
It would be recalled that Hon. Moshood Salvador about two weeks ago declared that he is the party governorship candidate for the state.
Salvador said he applied for the withdrawal of the name of the candidate earlier submitted and his name was substituted by his name, claiming that he bought the form from INEC office, his declaration was also witnessed by the party deputy national chairman Lamidi Apanpa.
Salako, a social crusader and public affair analyst, at a press conference in Lagos asserted that there was no faction in the state chapter of the party, insisting that the Labour Party was resolved to win the next guber poll and form the next government in the state, come 2023.
Speaking further, LP chairman raised the alarm that some people, who he described as state boys, were sending threat messages to their members due to growing popularity of the party in Lagos State, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, and other security outfits in the country to intervene and bring sanity to the country “to allow us run our affairs.”
