Jonathan Nwokpor
Keneth Okonkwo, the Labour Party’s spokesperson for the 2023 general election presidential campaign, has left the party.
For his decision, Okonkwo primarily attributed his blame to Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate in the previous election, as well as the internal party turmoil.
The politician-turned-filmmaker also attacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), claiming that neither party is moving Nigeria forward.
He claimed that because Nigeria is presently experiencing economic hardship, the combined leadership of the two parties is “trying to cripple Nigeria.”
Okonkwo claimed in a letter published on Sunday that the people’s only recourse is to protest in order to ensure their survival because of the APC. They “see no hope for the future” because of this.
The filmmaker made the argument that “power from these kakistocracy and kleptocrats” can only be taken from them by a strong political party with a strong grassroots foundation.
Speaking, Okonkwo noted that “We also need a decisive leader who will be selfless enough, in boldness and bravery, to secure our victory, when the people vote for such leader, because these corrupt and incompetent leaders are not willing to conduct free and fair elections and will always grab, take power from any weak and indecisive candidate, and run away with it.”
The politician and attorney referred to the court as “electoral bandits who steal electoral victories at gunpoint in the glare of everyone’s eyes.”
In the unlikely event that Nigeria elects such a candidate, Okonkwo stated he is looking for a “leader who has the integrity and also the commensurate charisma and bravery to mobilise the people to sustain the victory, in the event that Nigeria votes for such a person. The time for calm down is over.
After all of their hard work and suffering to win, he claimed that the 2023 election was rigged, saying, “It is obvious that the judiciary will not give us democracy because of abuse of the judicial process. The people must take their destiny in their hands.”
“However, the person must be willing to be in the forefront of such endeavour. The suffering Nigerians are going through now from the people they didn’t vote for, but who snatched power, cannot be allowed to continue. These people will still remain in power come 2027 unless a decisive leader emerges to stop them with the votes of the people.
“What is happening in 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 for the Labour Party.
“I believe that Peter Obi will seize the momentum and build a solid party of integrity that will have the solid base that we need to overthrow these kakistocracy and kleptocrats.
“He just needed to give the right directives and everyone will 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 will still privately bring the needed solution to LP problems. to no avail.
“PO also publicly demanded that the Abure led National Working Committee must organise an all inclusive convention that will guarantee the participation of all members of the Labour Party in the choice of their leaders.
“This didn’t happen, and surprisingly, PO refused to disassociate himself from the shenanigans and criminal activities of the former NWC as their time had expired.
“Every member of the Labour Party is confused today as to the future of the Labour Party because of lack of leadership from PO over the party, and unfortunately, when they look up to me to tell them about PO’s standpoint, I sincerely have nothing to tell them because I don’t know myself. I cannot continue to speak on behalf of a leader that I do not know his stand on issues of great importance. I simply don’t know how to manipulate facts.
“I am shocked that PO could not openly support the noble efforts of the Labour Unions who founded the Labour Party as a base to fight for the welfare of workers to the extent that some of them are openly saying that PO is now the problem of LP.
“The Labour Unions now have the unfortunate situation where they are fighting criminals who want to hijack their party when an ordinary statement from PO would have brought the solution. I cannot continue with this ambivalence forever.
“I am of course in full support of the Labour Unions and other stakeholders who are now compelled to fight for the soul of LP without the support of PO.
“However, the consequence is that I no longer have the confidence that PO has what it takes to build a party that can win these kakistocrats and kleptocrats, and above all, he has proved that even if the people vote for him, he doesn’t have what it takes to secure the mandate.
“I don’t intend to embark on such a campaign as we did in 2023, projecting a person who cannot sustain the victory even if he wins.
“It’s in this regard that I have decided to continue my political journey into the great Nigeria of our vision without Peter Obi. “
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