LP Strategises for April Elections

Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Rivers State chapter, Mr Prince Favour, has said that the party is ready for the 2011 general elections in the state and has strategised to win the elections.

Speaking with The Tide shortly after the 2010 National Convention of the party in Abuja, Prince Favour said the party would improve on its performance at the last general elections in 2007 and is positioning itself as the party to beat in Rivers State.

“We have people-oriented programmes and are masses-centered. Labour Party is credible, we are workers and masses friendly. The people know that Labour Party is their party and are indeed warming up to vote for us at the general elections,” he said.

The LP chairman said the party was targeting married women, market women, Achaba/okada riders, students, commercial drivers, farmers, fishermen, road transport workers, traditional rulers, bus conductors, civil servants, police/armed forces and business people, in its campaign for the 2011 elections.

According to him, with the Labour Party in power in the state, “there will be no more monkey dey work, baboon dey chop,” and appealed to Rivers people to “join the people’s party and vote for the Labour Party because Labour Party, na our own O!”

The Rivers chairman of the party said the party had a well-thought out manifesto for the people, which is summarised in its motto: “Equal opportunity and social justice” assuring that the manifesto would be implemented to the letter.

He said the party supports the quest for ‘one man, one vote’ at the elections and the resolve by the Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government to ensure that the people’s votes count while enjoining politicians to play to the rules and eschew acts of violence in the build-up to the elections, and the elections proper.

“May I also appeal to our teeming supporters to register for the elections at the forthcoming registration of voters exercise, slated for Janaury 15-29, he pleaded.

Justus Awaji, Abuja