Former Peter Obi ally releases strong statement on what must be done to sack Tinubu, shut APC in 2027

• Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo urged Nigeria’s absorption parties to unite and contiguous a credible alternate to the ruling APC up of the 2027 elections
• Okonkwo criticised the APC’s absorption connected powerfulness retention amid rising insecurity and poverty
• He stressed that enactment should beryllium decided by Nigerians, not closed-door deals, and disclosed helium remains progressive successful authorities done a forming conjugation aiming to connection a caller absorption beyond the Labour Party

As Nigeria approaches the 2027 wide elections, Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo, ineligible practitioner and spokesperson for the Labour Party during the 2023 elections, has urged absorption parties to travel unneurotic to signifier a credible alternate to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Okonkwo made his remarks successful an interrogation connected Arise TV pursuing the APC Northwest’s endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arsenic its sole campaigner for the 2027 statesmanlike election.

Kenneth Okonkwo shares his views connected however to decision President Bola Tinubu successful the 2027 election. Photo credit: @KennethOboup/@officialABAT
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APC endorsement sparks statement amid nationalist challenges

The endorsement included a ballot of assurance successful Tinubu and automatic second-term tickets for APC governors successful the region.

However, it has sparked a nationalist statement astir the party’s priorities successful the look of rising insecurity and poverty.

“It is shameful that astatine a clip erstwhile radical are being killed, similar the 15 radical reportedly murdered this greeting successful Agatu Local Government Area, Benue State, and the Northwest is grappling with the highest complaint of out-of-school children and poverty, leaders are preoccupied with elections inactive 2 years away,” Okonkwo said.

He described the endorsement arsenic an unrepresentative gathering of governmental elites, disconnected from the needs of implicit 60 cardinal people successful the Northwest, Vanguard reported.

“Democracy is astir the people, not a radical of sycophants seeking powerfulness for its ain sake,” helium added.

Okonkwo: Opposition indispensable unite to decision APC successful 2027

Okonkwo attributed the opposition’s nonaccomplishment successful 2023 to fragmentation, which allowed a number enactment with conscionable 37 per cent of votes to triumph the presidency.

“The lone mode to get APC retired of powerfulness successful 2027 is for the absorption to unite. Nigerians merit a authorities rooted successful integrity, competence, and a committedness to nationalist welfare, not 1 focused connected powerfulness retention,” helium declared.

APC’s ‘palm vino politics’ undermines stability

He criticised what helium called the APC’s “palm vino politics”, likening the party’s inconsistent ideology and rampant defections to the changing sensation of thenar wine, Nation reported.

“Today, they enactment Tinubu. Tomorrow, they’ll leap ship. That’s the instability the APC represents,” Okonkwo said.

Labour Party’s aboriginal and governmental arrangements

Kenneth Okonkwo outlined what the absorption needs to bash to flooded President Bola Tinubu successful 2027. Photo credit: @NgLabour
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Asked astir discussions betwixt erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi connected a imaginable one-term presidency and a vice-presidential offer, Okonkwo said enactment decisions should beryllium made by Nigerians, not done closed-door governmental deals.

Speaking connected the Labour Party, helium acknowledged its pro-worker principles but expressed interest implicit caller candidates joining without afloat embracing its values. Although helium near the enactment owed to interior challenges, Okonkwo remains progressive successful politics.

“I americium portion of a conjugation that is inactive successful the formative stages. We’re not rushing into platforms, but erstwhile we emerge, Nigerians volition perceive from us. We whitethorn not alteration the opening of our story, but we tin surely alteration however it ends. And I judge we volition succeed,” helium said.

2027 election: Atiku's campy offers Obi VP

Previously, Legit.ng reported that up of the 2027 election, the statesmanlike campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, had reportedly offered Peter Obi a vice-presidential role.

Atiku asked Obi, the statesmanlike campaigner of the Labour Party (LP) successful the 2023 election, to beryllium his lieutenant successful a associated single-term ticket.

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