Mr Peter Ugwu, Chairman of Labour Party in the FCT, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upload its candidates for the FCT Area Council elections scheduled for Feb.26, 2026 on its portal.
Ugwu said this when members of the party staged a peaceful protest to INEC office on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that INEC’s delay in doing the needful was distorting the party’s arrangements towards the forthcoming election.
“We, in the FCT, conducted primaries and elected candidates for this election. Sadly, while the names of candidates of other political parties have been uploaded on the INEC portal, ours is not. INEC should correct this anomaly.
“We came to appeal to the national chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to upload our candidates names for the FCT Area Council elections that will be coming up on February 26, 2026.
“We plead with INEC to do it very fast, so that we will join other political parties to make sure that this election is conducted properly and successfully,” he said.
Mrs Success Onyeze, FCT Women Leader and the party’s aspirant for the chairmanship position at the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Kingsley Okeke said the party’s primary election was free and fair.
According to them, the party members were surprised not to see their candidates’ names on INEC portal, which is why they were at the INEC office to register their grievances.
“We have contained our crowd, because we are peaceful people. We know Labour Party as a peaceful party.We have come to appeal to Prof. Yakubu to do the right thing.
“Barr. Julius Abure remains the national chairman of the Labour Party, and we are here peacefully to plead that our names are uploaded for the forthcoming election so that we can represent our people.
“We know the other parties are afraid of Labour Party.
“It is obvious that the Labour Party owns FCT and the FCT belongs to the Labour Party.We are appealing to INEC chairman to hereby upload our candidates because LP is a registered party and it is legally recognised,” they said.
He appealed to INEC to adhere to the constitution of the land.
In his response, INEC’s National Commissioner, who represented the Chairman, Abdulahi Zuru promised that the message of the protesters would be communicated to the leadership of the commission.
