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The
national leadership of the Labour Party, at the weekend, made a
passionate appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately
commence the process for a fresh and transparent registration of voters
in country.

The Party, in a
communiqué issued at the end of its 8th National Executive Council
meeting held in Akure, at the weekend, argued that the present Voters’
Register was totally dubious and full of errors.

The Labour Party,
in a communiqué signed by Dan Nwanyanwu and Abdusalam Abdukardir Salam,
National Chairman and National Secretary of the Party respectively
added that the current voters’ register could not be relied upon for
conducting credible polls in the country.

“We want to enjoin
President Jonathan to ensure that credible elections are conducted on
the basis of one person, one valid vote are put in place.

The Party also
lauded the recent sack of the former boss of the Independent National
Electoral Commmisssion (INEC), Maurice Iwu, saying that his leadership
was characterized by manipulation of votes and fraud in the
announcement of winners of elections.

‘As a party, we are satisfied with the removal of Maurice Iwu because he was not with the job given to him to do.

All we want
Jonathan to do is to appoint credible people to man INEC, people who
will able to conduct credible elections for the nation,” the party said.

The party also
commiserated with the immediate family of the late former President
Umaru Musa yar’Adua and the entire nation over what they termed
“painful exit of a man of peace,”.

For wage increase

The party’s NEC
equally threw its weight behind the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and
the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in their agitation for the
payment of minimum wage of N52, 200 for workers in the nation.

It assured that
the party would be consciously re-positioned by aggressive drive to
further expand its membership base in all states of the federation,
resolving that the Party’s Congresses in all wards, Local government
Areas and States be held and concluded in August 2010 based on the
approved guidelines issued by the National Working Committee (NWC) of
the Party.