Kenneth Okonkwo, a former spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, has resigned from the party.
This was stated in a news release that Okonkwo signed on Tuesday.
The former LP campaign spokesperson claimed in the statement that internal and leadership issues had left the party unprepared for the general election in 2027.
“My entry into politics is for good governance, and I will keep working for it to make Nigeria a great country of incorruptible men,” he declared.
“The Labour Party as it currently exists cannot achieve this goal.
“I feel compelled to abandon my membership in the party since it does not exist as it currently exists.
“I pledge my continued loyalty to the Nigerian people in everything I decide to do in my political future, to all good-willed Nigerians who helped us when we needed it most.”
The Nollywood star stated that he is willing to set up shop somewhere for political work.
“I will be free to join other well-meaning and like-minded Nigerians in charting a great future of good governance for this great country blessed by God after this resignation takes effect on February 25, 2025, which marks the second anniversary of the presidential election of 2023,” he continued.
According to Okonkwo, the caretaker committee established to save the party has been hampered by needless litigation, and the leadership of the party has long since left office.
He accused Julius Abure, the LP’s national chairman, of putting his own interests ahead of the party’s continued existence.
There is no effective leadership of the Labour Party at the national level because Julius Abure, the former National Chairman of the party, and his former National Working Committee did not hold a national convention as required by law, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and because the courts have ruled that a political party’s internal affairs are beyond their purview.
The only realistic chance to save the Labour Party was the senator Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee, which was duly and legally established by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party after INEC refused to recognize the Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC). The committee was given six months to hold congresses and the convention.
Unfortunately, Abure and his associates started needless legal challenges against this Caretaker Committee, which have prevented it from operating, with the help of outside parties who were obviously political jobbers. Since the committee hasn’t even taken off more than six months after its inauguration, many people have come to the conclusion that these politicians’ main goal, along with that of their outside partners, is to drag down the serious members of the Labour Party with pointless and frivolous lawsuits until the 2027 election is over.
“Isn’t it odd that a political party’s national executive, whose elected members are leaving the party every day and who is unable to fight for these seats back, is fighting fiercely to keep their suffocating, destructive grip on the party?” he claimed.
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