As Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate in 2023, has “proved that even if the people vote for him, he doesn’t have what it takes to secure the mandate,” chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo says he no longer believes Obi can create a winning party.
As you may recall, Okonkwo, who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Liberal Party (LP), was named as a spokesperson for the LP presidential campaign council in the run-up to the 2023 presidential election. However, in June this year, he called the LP “a secret society led by a group of clowns” and said he could not rule out leaving the party.
The LP leader claimed that the events of the past few days in the party had “inspired” him to “a determination to chart a new course for my political journey” in a message that was posted on his X account on Saturday.
According to Okonkwo, he expected the former governor of Anambra will “seize the momentum and build a solid party of integrity that will have the solid base that we need to overthrow” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the APC.
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“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 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 but 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.”
