ABEOKUTA– Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the National Publicity Secretary of Labour Party, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi has condemned the high cost of nomination form for aspirants contesting for elective positions under the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying it is a delibrate attempt to shut out the youth constituents.
Arabambi, in a press statement made available to The News Ville on Friday in Abeokuta, lambasted the two major political parties for coming out publicly to place as much as N40 million and N20 million respectively on Nomination forms.
“This tendency with the two – in one APC and PDP political Parties has remained the same manipulative and primitive practice that have reserved and have sustained electoral monopoly for their recurring and ever leading deceitful frighteningly rich political Goliaths.
“Of course , to every citizen who are well informed in the two – in – one APC and PDP Political Party shared official policy of excluding the not rich citizens from the electoral process , it won’t come as a surprise that these political parties came out to publicly place as much as N40m and N20m on Nomination forms.
“Labour Party in a clear language condemns the very exorbitant cost of nomination forms in APC and PDP that targets the perpetual exclusion of the youths and but exclusively preserved for the rich in the build up for the 2023 Election”, Arabambi noted.
He added that costing nomination forms beyond the reach of the not rich professionals, the youths, the women smells of extortion attitude, adding that besides being very undemocratic, it is insensitive.
“Labour Party as a political party for Social Democrats condemns all of these atrocious and shocking direct pursuit of political exclusion. You cannot ever find this kind of undemocratic attitude in a Party that is disciplined, sincere, focused and committed to the practice of Equity and Justice in the party affairs like in Labour Party widely and highly acknowledged for its democratic and fair politics.
“Labour Party as the most readily very competent third force and the only alternative political party on offer towards 2023, we urge Nigerians to tame and arrest all tendencies of greed for totally poisonous and seemingly free money but in truth are poisonous generosity.
“Most of the leading and visible Politicians in APC and PDP are strictly political Merchants , treasury looters and commonwealth thieves who must be rejected at the polls in 2023 .
“The only political party that is truly committed to leading Nigerians into a new Nigeria where equity and Justice will be the norm”, he added
