LP Crisis: Obi’s Spokesman, Okonkwo Hints Of Leaving Party

Kenneth Okonkwo, one of the spokespersons of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election says he may leave the party any moment from now.

Recall that Okonkwo left the All progressives Congress, APC, ahead the 2023 presidential election to support the party’s candidate Peter Obi.

According to the popular Nollywood actor, his decision is based on the leadership crisis rocking the party.

He pointed out that the last National Convention by the Julius Abure-led leadership was a joke, adding that the leaders of the party lack integrity.

Okonkwo stated further that because the party has not been committed to the welfare of Nigerians “I don’t rule out going bank to anything” including his former party, the All Progressive’s Congress, APC.

He laments, “Any party that is not visibly committed to the welfare of Nigerians will most likely not see me there. I don’t rule out going back to anything because change is constant.

“My own labour party is not impressing me. Assuming they continue on this trajectory where they cannot even hold an acceptable national convention, then you’d tell me I’d be there?

“I was a spokesperson at the presidential level and I did not know that the Labour Party was having a convention. When I saw it on social media, I thought it was fake. They were rejected in Umuahia because it was a leprous convention.”

“Those people are clowns. It is the greatest joke I have ever seen in a political party and then you want to position yourself as a party of integrity. You cannot give what you don’t have.”

Okonkwo left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022, citing the adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election. A month later, he joined the LP.