Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), says he is not impressed by recent developments in the party.
June 20, 2024 2:37 pmKenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the Labour Party , says he is not impressed by recent developments in the party.presidential campaign spokesperson for the party in the 2023 election, described the LP as “a secret society led by a group of clowns”.the integrity to take advantage of the internal crisis in other parties.
The LP has been embroiled in a leadership crisis since Lamidi Apapa, deputy national chairman of the party ,a national convention of the party in Anambra saw Julius AbureThe Independent National Electoral Commission the convention that re-elected Abure as a charade and added that Abure’s tenure was over as national chairman of the party.
“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.
“Aburi and his cohorts, their tenure is over. Let Aburi and his cohorts get behind me. They are workers of iniquity. I don’t rate them. That executive is in charge of the secret society. They should be apprehended.”the All Progressives Congress in 2022, citing the party’s adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election.the LP and promised to help in actualising the presidential bid of Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra.
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