20 lawyers volunteer to represent LP candidates at tribunal

No less than 20 attorneys and other legal professionals, according to the Labour Party’s Lagos State chapter, have offered to assist the party and its candidates in recovering their purportedly stolen mandates.

The party said that a legal team had volunteered to assist candidates who felt tricked following the results of the state’s general elections on February 25 and March 18 at a meeting with some of its candidates in the most recent general elections.

At the party’s secretariat in Ikeja on Tuesday evening in Lagos, Dayo Ekong, the chairperson of the Lagos State LP, revealed this while speaking to the front-runner candidates and other important players.

“We have a group of professionals and lawyers who want to volunteer their services for free to help our candidates retrieve their stolen mandates.

“Feel free to contact them in case you need legal advice. We are hopeful that legal practitioners will help those who do not have money to hire lawyers to fight their cases in court.

“All eyes are on the judiciary. We are going to win,” Ekong said.

The party’s chairperson expressed hope that the reportedly stolen mandates will be recovered.

“This is the time for us to stand strong, tall and stay focused no matter the attacks and intimidation.

“We are with you. We want to feel more of you, we want you to support us and together we can move this party forward,” she said

Ekong promised that all candidates contesting the results of the most recent general elections will continue to have the support of the state exco.

“We cannot allow people who are playing the script of some paymasters in our midst to continue. Our children must grow up to see a new Nigeria and that is our passion and commitment.

“Be part of the history, fight the battle no matter the castigation and intimidation. If our country is better, our children will sing a new song,” she added.

“We are at a period in this party when everything looks uncertain because of infiltrations,” she said.

She pleaded with all disgruntled candidates to put their complaints on hold and try to advance the party and its ideas in their respective electoral districts.