Osun State Chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has announced its withdrawal from Saturday’s local government election in the state.
The State Chairman of the party, Adebayo Bello, made the announcement while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Osogbo.
Bello said that the party was withdrawing from the election due to lack of adequate security arrangement by the State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC), for the peaceful conduct of the poll.
He, however, called for the postponement of the election for one or two months, to enable OSSIEC to adequately prepare for the poll.
According to him, the postponement would also afford the electoral umpire to resolve the legal issues surrounding the conduct of the election.
On his part, one of the party’s chairmanship candidates, Oyebode Babalola, said that LP would not participate in the election due to security concerns.
Babalola, who noted that the party was not too sure of the security arrangement for the election, called for its postponement.
“Although, we are ready for the election, but we are not going to participate, due to security concern.
“We have seen some traces that the election might be disrupted tomorrow and we are not ready to put the lives of our people in jeopardy,” he said.