2023: Why People Are Funding and Organising Rallies for The Labour Party: National President

The national chairman of Labour Party, Barr. Julius Abure, has reacted to rallies held by the party’s supporters across the country.
“The rallies are not surprising, it is because the Labour Party has a people-oriented candidate who will work for the people and who will effectively serve the interests of the party,” he said in a statement on Saturday as hundreds of party supporters rally in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

For him, the rallies showed that people are driving the process forward and realizing what the party means to them and to the future.

He said: “You know that the Labour Party is a party for the poor, the artisans, the students, the market women, the oppressed, the civil servants, the wood cutters and the water collectors, and the common man on the street. They own the party and make up more than 90 percent of Nigerians.
“By the time the campaigns start, you’ll see people campaigning for the party. All these movements and activities that you are seeing everywhere, the Labour Party has no contribution.
“People are mobilizing, they themselves are printing the party logo, they are printing campaign materials out of their pockets and they are conducting the campaign process for themselves and that’s what we’re seeing.”

Ultimately, he said the goals of the party and its supporters are to change the political narrative in the country and for Nigerians to take their destinies into their own hands.
“People now ask questions about how they are governed, they want to fire looters, they want to change the status quo,” he said.

“They want to end the activities of some people who have stolen from the common treasury. People have always been on the receiving end, but all those scenarios are about to change. The party is the voice of the voiceless, and that’s what you see at those rallies, that’s what’s replicated across the country.
“So, the Labour Party is changing the political narratives in Nigeria. This is the first time it has happened. God on our side, knowing that the voice of the people is the voice of God”.