The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, said that it was not compulsory for the governorship election scheduled for November 11, 2023, to hold in Imo.
The NLC Head of International Relations, Uchenna Ekwe, made the remark during an interview on Channels TV.
Ekwe said the Imo people had faced violence and insisted that the election would not produce anything.
Many Questions
To him, the workers in Imo do not have faith that the election would determine anything.
Ekwe said: “Talking about the election, in Imo in particular, did the votes count? How did he (Hope Uzodinma) become governor? In Imo, is the place not terrorised?
“Go to Imo, I challenge you, you won’t see a poster of any other party, you can’t even see a tiny poster of any other party.
“Get feedback from your correspondents in Imo.
“Ask them in the whole street of Owerri whether there is a poster of any other party.”
The Truth
“How can you say an election is coming up, INEC meeting was disrupted, how can you hope that there will be any election?
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“We don’t have faith, even the workers don’t have faith that the election will determine anything. That is the truth.
“We don’t believe election in Imo will produce anything.
“This is because the Imo people have been crushed, violence has taken over the place.
End Of The World
“We are not telling them not to come out to vote but the people will be scared to come out.
“If people have run away from their homes before the election and in the build-up to the election, people are being attacked every day, would you advise your family to come out?
Why should we say people should not come out to vote but we are scared people will not come out to vote.
“Must there be an election in Imo, will the world end?
“Will the world end if there is no election in Imo State? No, the world would not end. We are not disrupting the election”.
