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Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Biodun556(m): 8:24pm On Jun 20
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
https://guardian.ng/kenneth-okonkwo-hints-at-dumping-labour-party-for-apc/

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Biodun556(m): 8:25pm On Jun 20
grin

He laboured in vain

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by givedemwotowoto: 8:25pm On Jun 20
Na so this hunger reach? FFK was the first to do it when he got wind of the "grand plan".

If you don't know Nigeria's politics, you'll think that the economic hardship will force people to abandon the APC, but no, it reinforces their resolve to survive at any cost, it squeezes them into a tight box where they'll beg for air or water to give you their votes

What a paradox!

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by esira: 8:26pm On Jun 20
This one shock everyone

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Remman(m): 8:28pm On Jun 20
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".

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Boyewu: 8:29pm On Jun 20
To do what?
Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by lordm(m): 8:36pm On Jun 20
I doubt if this is true. It can't be

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Slytiger: 8:37pm On Jun 20
Lol. He learnt from his gbajue master. He is one of those wey follow chop Obidients money with Aishat yesufu.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by GreatKingg: 8:41pm On Jun 20
ok
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
Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Carazon: 8:42pm On Jun 20
Who are the "they" that can't hold national convention?
Are you not part of the "they"??
Bunch of opportnist that thought PO will win the election so as to be parading themselves as heroes of democracy.

There are two things that you can't separate an average Nigerian from; hypocrisy and shamelessness.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by helinues: 8:43pm On Jun 20
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

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by seunmsg(m): 8:46pm On Jun 20
All agents are returning home after a successful undercover operation. grin grin grin

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by seunmsg(m): 8:48pm On Jun 20
Boyewu:
To do what?

To do exactly what Peter Obi is going back to do in PDP.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Racoon(m): 8:48pm On Jun 20
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.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Life2ways: 8:53pm On Jun 20
See this one. All for personal aggrandizement.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by greens(m): 8:59pm On Jun 20
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".
Please kindly tell us how much Tinubu paid to buy him

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by anonymous1759(m): 9:00pm On Jun 20
Even the Dumbest is using this OBIDIENESE movement to cash out 🤣🤣🤣 . It only signifies that the movement is full of dullards grin grin grin ; but they claim to be wisest. grin grin

one of the dullards above me is already lamenting that Tinubu has paid him .
It’s only a phoool that’ll believe a party that couldn’t complete it’s party agent across Nigeria won the election.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by seunmsg(m): 9:03pm On Jun 20
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.

So, is Peter Obi also a pig without honor for negotiating a return to PDP?

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by olaolaking: 9:03pm On Jun 20
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".
I think Igbos don't backbite. How can an Igbo man be bought?

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by JagabanB: 9:03pm On Jun 20
He left because of same religion ticket but obidents are deceiving themselves that they are trying to repair Nigeria.
Mobs never learn.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Righthussle: 9:05pm On Jun 20
Na hunger oo.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Remman(m): 9:09pm On Jun 20
olaolaking:
I think Igbos don't backbite. How can an Igbo man be bought?
There's no tribe in the world that doesn't backbite. China has caught their own born citizen sharing info with U.S. CIA. So, anybody can be lured with money. As you are, if you're given 2billion just to say something in the public you'd to it.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by PDPdestroyer(m): 9:10pm On Jun 20
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 grin

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by kedeojo(m): 9:14pm On Jun 20
Biodun556:
grin

He laboured in vain
After the tribal politics he played and throwing insult to the president anyhow. He want to go back to one of the structure of criminality he and his presidential candidate called them. No honour at all, Spit on him. Soludo was right about nzogbu nzogbu politics he referred them as but their people wanted to crucify him.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by PDPdestroyer(m): 9:17pm On Jun 20
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 grin

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Christistruth00: 9:17pm On Jun 20
Biodun556:
grin

He laboured in vain

Tinubu should give him an instant appointment considering that he was with Tinubu until the Muslim Muslim Ticket issue

And you can't blame him
It was difficult for many to swallow especially after what bandits and Boko Haram did to Nigerians

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by kedeojo(m): 9:25pm On Jun 20
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
Him joining labour party was to seek for higher position if they had won but now want to go back to Apc and beg for crumbs. They are not ready to noture any party patiently. If they can abandoned Apga formed by Ojukwu who they sing his praise, that speak volume. Nzogbu nzogbu politics can't take them anywhere, the better they know that. I trust Tinubu, they will set him up with his people by giving him a position that will require to tarnish the image of Obi and others. Since he is desperate. Apga has now be reduced from the regional party to anambra state party. Northerners formed pdp, south west formed AD and Tinubu was envisaging national height but some of the elders just wanted a regional party. Tinubu took some faction and it metaphors to AC later ACN by spreading to some state outside south west and he later formed coalition and now became president. That how to build a party not jumping from party to party.

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Ogonimilitant(m): 10:25pm On Jun 20
Igbo people never liked the fool. He is a sabo. I remember what he did during Buhari against the Igbos. The guy is more gullible than Reno

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Ola9ja23: 10:53pm On Jun 20
Can you trust any Igbo in national politics?

They always celebrate betrayers like Obaseki, Bitter Obituary and Fubara

Let's see how they celebrate this Okwonkwo

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Re: Kenneth Okonkwo Hints At Dumping Labour Party For APC by Obakoolex(m): 10:54pm On Jun 20
I can't laugh abeg🤣

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