The Labour Party (LP) has dropped its petition against the election of Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2023 poll.
LP had challenged Fubara’s victory in the exercise with the Appeal Court in Lagos, dismissing its petition and upholding the PDP candidate’s win.
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But weeks after the development, LP’s governorship candidate in the election, Beatrice Itubo, said the party had dropped the case.
She said this in a Saturday chat with Channels Television in her Ogbakiri country home of Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
“Because of the current happenings in River State, we feel that the interests of the state are far more paramount than every one of our expectations or feelings,” the LP chieftain said.
“So, we are looking at it from the angle of the people. People have said, ‘Let us allow the government to move on, let there be good governance’ and there cannot be good governance without peace.
“And so we looked at the whole scenario, and we said, ‘Enough is enough. Let us go back and ask our lawyers to withdraw the suit so that we can join hands with the present government to see how we can move the state forward’.”