LP crisis: Kenneth Okonkwo reveals those who deceived Peter obi

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Veteran politician and actor Kenneth Okonkwo has asserted that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential contender, was duped by the party’s executive officer, Julius Abure.

According to Okonkwo, Abure and his associates deceived Obi into returning to their services by claiming to have been approved by the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC.

He bemoaned the fact that Obi publicly supported the Abures even after he was informed that their executive was an agent of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

In a Saturday interview with Symfoni TV, the former spokesperson for the LP Presidential Campaign Council revealed this.

He said: “The Julius Abure-led LP members lied to Obi that the Independent National Electoral Commission had accepted them and Obi surreptitiously went back to them but I told him: ‘Sir, you have made a public statement on integrity and even if INEC has accepted them, that is not a criterion for you to go back and start dealing with them because they have shown that they are not democratic.

“If you go back to them, they will destroy your political career and everything you have said about integrity will die.’

“I told Obi that these people had become agents in the hands of the government to destabilise him.

“And after saying all those things, within like 72 hours, Obi went back to Abure’s office to publicly endorse them and while he was there talking to them, one of the leaders in that executive sent me the video to mock me that the person I was fighting for against them has come to their office to endorse them.”

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