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Former spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council during the 2023 election, Kenneth Okonkwo, has hinted at dumping the party.

“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,” Okonkwo said in an interview with a news platform, Symfoni.

“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.

The LP has been embroiled in a leadership tussle after Lamidi Apapa, deputy national chairman of the party (south), declared himself the acting national chairman in 2023.

The crisis worsened in 2024 when a national convention of the party in Anambra saw Julius Abure re-elected as chairman of the party amid opposition from a faction of the party, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saying it did not monitor the LP’s national convention.
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party described the convention that re-elected Abure as a charade, adding that Abure’s tenure was over as national chairman of Labour.

Abure has since been sacked by the court

Biodun556:
https://guardian.ng/kenneth-okonkwo-hints-at-dumping-labour-party-for-apc/


former spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council during the 2023 election, Kenneth Okonkwo, has hinted at dumping the party.

“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,” Okonkwo said in an interview with a news platform, Symfoni.

“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.

The LP has been embroiled in a leadership tussle after Lamidi Apapa, deputy national chairman of the party (south), declared himself the acting national chairman in 2023.

The crisis worsened in 2024 when a national convention of the party in Anambra saw Julius Abure re-elected as chairman of the party amid opposition from a faction of the party, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saying it did not monitor the LP’s national convention.
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party described the convention that re-elected Abure as a charade, adding that Abure’s tenure was over as national chairman of Labour.

Abure has since been sacked by the court

Boyewu:
To do what?

Remman:
I'm not surprised for as far as Tinubu is still on the ballot, he'll continue to buy key figures from other parties to weaken. Tinubu is a professional background work master, of all the people he's bought, e.g. Wike & G5, Reno, INEC chairman, etc. it's OBJ's newly bought loyalty (who supported P.O. in the 2023 elections) that shocked me to the bone. I think his focus right now is to breakdown Labour Party's structure, key influencers and supporters. Whoever gave him the idea that buying Wike and the G5 governors would weaken PDP's structure is an analyst.

Kenneth will not be the last, others who supports P.O. will follow. Gradually we'll begin to experience this happening.

This just tells about the average Nigerian, like most women, "we go where the money goes".

Racoon:
Kenneth returning to the APC is his personal choice if true. However, a pig always going back to its vomit does not have any honour left.

Remman:
I'm not surprised for as far as Tinubu is still on the ballot, he'll continue to buy key figures from other parties to weaken. Tinubu is a professional background work master, of all the people he's bought, e.g. Wike & G5, Reno, INEC chairman, etc. it's OBJ's newly bought loyalty (who supported P.O. in the 2023 elections) that shocked me to the bone. I think his focus right now is to breakdown Labour Party's structure, key influencers and supporters. Whoever gave him the idea that buying Wike and the G5 governors would weaken PDP's structure is an analyst.

Kenneth will not be the last, others who supports P.O. will follow. Gradually we'll begin to experience this happening.

This just tells about the average Nigerian, like most women, "we go where the money goes".

olaolaking:
I think Igbos don't backbite. How can an Igbo man be bought?

Biodun556:


He laboured in vain

PDPdestroyer:
Lol. An association of strange bed fellows

Obidiiots are mainly Igbos desperate for Igbo presidency, supported by ignorant and myopic non-Igbo youths, who have been brainwashed and made to believe that their destiny in life lies in the hands of a corrupt politician like Obi

Whoever packaged Obi for Nigerians deserves an award as the greatest hype man that ever walked the surface of this earth

Biodun556:


He laboured in vain

helinues:
Stay where you are.

You are not needed in Apc

When we dey tell Obidients that Kenneth is not stable, Dem dey think say we no know wetin we dey talk