The Labour Party (LP) candidate for Enugu West Senatorial District, Uchenna Igwebuike Ekwe has described the violence in Agwu Ward 1, Agwu Local Government Area (LGA) as an attack on democracy.
In a statement on Monday, he called on relevant authorities to fish out the perpetrators.
“We call on the Police and other security agencies to immediately conduct investigations into the devilish attacks against members of the Labour Party in different parts of Enugu State to identify the culprits and their sponsors and bring them to justice. No one and no political party is above the law,” his statement read.
“We also call on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
to take note of this brazen maelstrom against the pillars of electoral democracy in Enugu State. This attack is what it is – a brazen rape of democratic values. It would be apt for INEC to work with the Nigeria Police to make the perpetrators of the blood-chilling attacks against Labour Party members in Enugu State the guinea pigs of the budding Electoral Offences Commission law currently being shaped into law.”
Narrating how the incident happened, the senatorial candidate claimed “that while the rest of the country is beginning to make a fast break from the politics of bullets, bombs, biceps, and triceps, certain interests in the ruling political establishment in Enugu State are bent on testing the resolve of the people.
“In viral videos that captured those moments of demonic gyrations, the demented attackers were heard boasting that no political parties would be allowed to operate in Biafra. This is clearly an attempt to ride on a false flag as no other political party meetings were attacked or threatened apart from those of the Labour Party.
“This attack clearly establishes three things for us. First, the fear of the effervescent popularity of the Labour Party is now the beginning of panic
for members of the ruling political class in Enugu State as they are already feeling the irrepressible resolve by Ndi Enugu that the wind of transformational leadership sweeping across the length and breadth of Nigeria must not leave Enugu State behind.
“This huge renewal of faith in transformational governance among Nigerians and Ndi Enugu is on the wings of the general acceptance of the servant-leadership appeal of Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, and Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Enugu State.”
Read the full statement below:
BULLETS AND BOMBS CAN NOT SILENCE A PEOPLE’S AGENDA AND RESOLVE WHICH TIME HAS COME
Press Release
Sunday, 4th of September 2022 would go down in the political history of Enugu State as the day that reactionary politics coronated itself with the sullied robe of cowardice and violence. The notorious coronation played out in Agwu Ward 1, Agwu local government and a week earlier at Aninri local government as suspected Peoples Democratic Party thugs attacked the monthly meetings of the Labour Party in the two local governments, wounding Labour Party members and vandalizing personal property.
It is unfortunate that while the rest of the country is beginning to make a
fast break from the politics of bullets, bombs, biceps and triceps, certain interests in the ruling political establishment in Enugu State are bent on testing the resolve of the people. In viral videos that captured those moments of demonic gyrations, the demented attackers were heard boasting that no political parties would be allowed to operate in Biafra. This is clearly an attempt to ride on a false flag as no other political party meetings were attacked or threatened apart from those of Labour Party.This attack clearly establishes three things for us. First, the fear of the effervescent popularity of the Labour Party is now the beginning of panic for members of the ruling political class in Enugu State as they are already feeling the irrepressible resolve by Ndi Enugu that the wind of transformational leadership sweeping across the length and breadth of Nigeria must not leave Enugu State behind. This huge renewal of faith in transformational governance among Nigerians and Ndi Enugu is on the wings of the general acceptance of the servant-leadership appeal of Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party and Hon. Chijioke
Edeoga, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Enugu State.Second, the recent reactionary and barbaric attack on the meetings of the Labour Party in Enugu State and the futile attempt to hide it under the Biafran agitation betrays the source of the violence in different parts of the Southeast as being politically motivated. It is unfortunate and tragic that politicians have hijacked the Biafran agitation as a cannon fodder for political violence and criminality. While it is understandable for a party that has lost relevance and touch with the people to panic at the sight of a sweeping defeat, it is totally unacceptable for such a sinking ship to resort to violence and mayhem against the people who have simply had enough of their streak of bad governance mixed with arrogance and impunity.
The cowardly attempt to scare the members of the Labour Party in Enugu State shows that the sponsors of the recent attacks are already at their wit’s end and totally frustrated. The truth is that no cartilage of bullets and cache of bombs can silence a peoples’ agenda and resolve which time have come. The people of Enugu State have since made up their minds to vote massively for the Labour Party in the 2023 general election and no amount of subterfuge and intimidation can stop this moving train.
It is on the strength of this resolve by Ndi Enugu that we warn the Peoples Democratic Party which has the dubious honour of importing and institutionalizing violence in the political culture of Enugu State to cease and desist from further testing the resolve of Ndi Enugu. According to an Igbo proverb, “no one knows on which head a stone thrown into the market square will land.” We believe that a word is enough for the wise.
We call on the Police and other security agencies to immediately conduct investigations into the devilish attacks against members of Labour Party in different parts of Enugu State to identify the culprits and their sponsors and bring them to justice. No one and no political party are above the law.
We also call on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take note of this brazen maelstrom against the pillars of electoral democracy in Enugu State. This attack is what it is – a brazen rape of democratic values. It would be apt for INEC to work with the Nigeria Police to make the perpetrators of the blood chilling attacks against Labour Party members in Enugu State the guinea pigs of the budding Electoral Offences Commission law currently being shaped into law.
Finally, we urge the people of Awgu, Aninri and Oji River Federal
Constituency and indeed the millions of ‘Obidient’ supporters in Enugu
West Senatorial District and Enugu State generally to remain calm, courageous, and committed to our collective resolve to rescue Enugu State from the vicious grips of those who co-habit with the devil and demons in the ministry of stealing, killing and destruction. One with God is majority!Aluta Continua… Victoria Ascerta!
Comrade (Hon) Uchenna Igwebuike Ekwe
Labour Party Candidate Enugu West Senatorial District5th September, 2022.
