The Labour Party (LP) has said it would not abandon the legitimate course of reclaiming its ‘stolen’ mandate through legal means after the Department of State Services (DSS) confirmed that a plan has been hatched to install an interim government in the country.
Official spokesperson of LP, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, spoke through a statement.
In a Wednesday statement, the DSS said some misguided political actors were plotting to install an interim government in the country.
According to the secret police, the “entrenched interests” behind the plot have weighed various options to achieve their sinister goal, including sponsoring violent mass protests to warrant a declaration of state of emergency and obtaining frivolous court injunctions to halt the inauguration of President-elect Bola Tinubu on May 29.
Responding, Tanko said, “We are certain that Nigerians who want to take back their country will not be intimidated or blackmailed into abandoning a legitimate course.
“As a party, we have submitted ourselves to pursuing the course of justice through constitutional means, it will not serve as the interest of democracy collapses in Nigeria.
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“We will like to ask, where was the DSS when our members and other Nigerians were being attacked, maimed and killed especially in Lagos?
“Where was the DSS when MC Oluomo and his ilk were engaged in ethnic profiling and violence against Nigerians of a certain ethnic nationality over their democratic choices?
“We needed the DSS to step up its game then but it failed. If it had done what it was supposed to, our nation would have been better for it.
“Now that Nigerians have decided to follow laid down democratic procedures of drawing attention to injustice warnings and threats are being issued.
“The DSS ought to have issued these warnings from the beginning to show Nigerians that this country belongs to all of us and not the personal fiefdom of an individual or a group.
“We urge the DSS to send these words of caution to those bigots who are pushing this country to the brink of disaster with their utterances and violent conduct against other peace-loving Nigerians who do not subscribe to their political views or speak their language,” Tanko said.