The Labour Party (LP) has kicked against the exclusion of the party from a planned TV debate for candidates ahead of the governorship election in Ondo State.
Naija News reports the debate, put together by Channels Television, and scheduled to air on Sunday, 3rd November, described the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lucky Aiyedatiwa and Agboola Ajayi, respectively, as the leading candidates in the November 16 governorship election.
However, the Labour Party, in a statement on Saturday by the Director of Publicity Labour Party Campaign Organisation in Ondo State, Johnson Egbodofo, kicked against the exclusion of the party from the debate.
He also questioned the labelling of the APC and PDP candidates as the leading candidates for the election, stressing that it is an attempt to mislead the voting populace in Ondo.
Egbodofo added that the Labour Party’s candidate, Olusola Nehemiah Ebiseni, is equally a leading…