Kenneth Okonkwo Dumps Labour Party, Peter Obi

Veteran Nollywood actor and former spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has discontinued his political involvement with the party and its candidate for the 2023 elections, Peter Obi.

Okonkwo revealed the decision in a statement published on his X on Saturday, July 27, 2024.

He stated that he decided to leave Obi because the former Anambra State Governor was unable to settle the LP's difficulties.

The lawyer further stated that he no longer believed the former presidential candidate could restore party unity and galvanise it to success in the next general elections.

He emphasised all the issues that the party has faced since the completion of the 2023 elections, as well as Obi's failure to use his influence to bring about a settlement.

Okonkwo, therefore, concluded that the former Governor had shown a lack of capacity to build a formidable platform required to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.

"What is happening in the Labour Party today has inspired in me a determination to chart a new course for my political journey. After the 2023 general election, Nigerians, including me, had high hopes in the Labour Party. 

"I believed that Peter Obi would seize the momentum and build a solid party of integrity that would have the solid base that we need to overthrow these kakistocrats and kleptocrats. He just needed to give the right directives and everyone would fall in line.

"I received my first shock when he publicly declared that he didn't promise Nigerians to build a strong Labour Party, but to solve Nigeria's problems. I was like, does it mean HE Peter Obi is not aware that without a solid party base, we are heading to nowhere politically?

"However, I continued in his defence believing he would still privately bring the needed solution to LP problems, to no avail."