The Labour and Civil Society Front is committed to ensuring that the electoral process is protected and that at all times the primacy of the Peoples’s choice is preserved.
We stated in our debut outing on the 30th of April, 2023 that the Nigerian People are committed to seeing that the Judiciary rises to the urgency of now by passing judgement in the Presidential Election Petition that will truly present the Judiciary in glowing light.
In our Solidarity outing with organized Labour on the 1st of May, 2023 we were unanimous in the call on the Parties to the Petitions before the Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal to effectively pursue their call for Justice without let or hindrance, and we believe that democracy is endangered where wrong persons hijack the mandate of the people through electoral malfeasance and larceny.
We have in many ways supported and endorsed the protests, street marches, sit-ins and sit-tights that have attended the largely flawed February 25, 2023, General Elections. We are calling on all lovers of democracy, well-meaning Nigerians, supporters of the Rule of law, and believers in the noble demands of due process to join forces with us as we urge and nudge the Judiciary to do right.
The Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal which began sitting on the 8th of May, 2023 must not see our protests as an attempt to overawe it. Indeed our protests show that we have great faith in the Judiciary and that we believe that they will do right by ensuring that the true winner of the Presidential Election and no other is sworn in on the 29th of May, 2023, this can be done by expeditiously determining the preliminary prayers of the Petitioners. We urge and nudge the Judiciary to do right.
We, as a major Citizens’ Movement with nationwide Structures, are in alliance with the Free Nigeria Movement (that has been on the Streets for upward of 30 days), the UpNorth Ambassadors, the Save Nigeria Group (that has been at the vanguard of protests around the Tribunal venue since Monday), The NCFront-3rd Force Movement of Nigeria, the Coalition of Obidient Movements Worldwide (with relentless channels of protest, calling for the validation of the Peoples Mandate), the League of Nigerian Progressives, the resurgent NADECO challenge, and several other groups committed to the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria.
Our unalterable and unyielding resolve is to salvage our decomposing democracy and restore the fast-fading faith in the electoral process.
Finally, we encourage Nigerians to continue and sustain all ongoing peaceful protests and marches against the monumental electoral larceny of the 25th of February, 2023 until Justice is done. To the Esteemed Judges in whose hands our collective sanity, faith and fate as a nation lie, the minimum we crave is that you do right.
SIGNED.
For Conveners
Olisa Agbakoba SAN
Comrade Shehu Sani
Amb. Nkoyo Toyo
Prof Udenta Udenta
Salisu Mohammed
Osagie Obayuwana
Che Olawale Okunniyi
Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr. (Media Coordinator).
