The Labour Party (LP) has accused the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, of spreading propaganda to Nigerians as the outcome of the 2023 presidential election continues to generate in and out of tribunal contests.

In response to the minister’s statement in which he asked opposition parties to stop “bleating” about the presidential election outcome, the Labour Party stated that only the blind would accept the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.

The third-placed party in the presidential poll said the Minister’s tour to the United States was a mere media excursion to waste taxpayers money and to defend what it described as an election that ” witnessed unprecedented magnitude of violence, ballot snuffing, snatching and manipulations of result from the collation centres using thugs, security agencies, which included police, army amongst others.”

The statement said: “We would rather not join issues with a man who is famous for constantly prescribing doses of expired and ineffectual propaganda to Nigerians,” the Labour Party said.

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“His ill-fated and hugely failed trip to the United Kingdom and United States where he attempted to redeem the grossly battered democratic credentials of this present administration; spending millions of tax payers money to defend an indefensible action is yet another tragedy of President Buhari’s 8 years leadership.

“It is only the blind that will continue to insist that the 2023 presidential election which was massively rigged was free, fair and credible.

“As we have said earlier, the opposition political parties lost the election because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC jettisoned the electoral act, having not uploaded the result from the polling unit in real time as promised and in so doing, created room for riggers to have a field day.

“The election witnessed unprecedented magnitude of violence, ballot snuffing, snatching and manipulations of result from the collation centres using thugs, security agencies, which included police, army amongst others.”

Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the Labour Party hits another height as factions disagree over the planned National Executive Council (NEC) meeting.

The party noted that the national executive council meeting planned by Lamidi Apapa-led faction is “illegal, fake and unauthourised”.

The party’s leadership has been divided since Apapa, who the party said was suspended, declared himself acting national chairman following a court’s dismissal of Julius Abure.

In its part, the Apapa Lamidi’s faction of the Labour Party has said that their NEC meeting in Bauchi State is lawful adding that Abure can never and ever return as LP national chairman.