The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party says no fewer than 20 lawyers and legal professionals have volunteered to help the party and its candidates retrieve their allegedly stolen mandates.
The party at a meeting with some of its candidates in the last general elections, said that a legal team had offered to render services to candidates who felt cheated following the outcome of the Feb. 25 and March 18 general elections in the state.
The Lagos State LP Chairperson, Pastor Dayo Ekong, disclosed this while addressing the frontline candidates and other critical stakeholders at the party’s Secretariat in Ikeja on Tuesday evening in Lagos.
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 chairperson expressed optimism that the party would recover allegedly stolen mandates.
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 assured that the state exco would continue to stand behind all candidates challenging the outcome of the last general elections.
