Veteran Nollywood actor, lawyer, and politician, Kenneth
Okonkwo, has said any move by Peter Obi to leave the African Democratic
Congress, ADC, would be a confirmation that the former Anambra State Governor
is working for President Bola Tinubu.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television, the former
Labour Party chieftain was asked about the whispers of Obi leaving the ADC
should he fail to grab the single presidential ticket of the party.
Okonkwo said, ‘Any of the aspirants who leave the party must
have been secretly working for Tinubu.’
Peter Obi, who was the presidential candidate of the Labour
Party in 2023, is one of the leading contenders for the ADC ticket, and the list
also has the likes of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, former Rivers
State governor, Chibuike Amaechi, amongst others.
“If he[Obi] leaves, will he now be a mobile squadron?
Anybody, any presidential, aspirant in ADC, seeing what everybody is going
through in ADC, that leaves ADC for another party is a mobile squatter. That’s
one” Okonkwo said.
“Then two, he is working for Tinubu. Because if all the
coalition leaders are facing through all this crisis, even with unity, then
what do you think one person can do going out?
“Anybody that goes out of the coalition is compromised and
is working for Tinubu, whoever that person is.”
Recall that Atiku had, while speaking in an interview on
Arise News on Wednesday, promised to work with and support whoever emerges as
the party’s presidential candidate through a consensus or elected through
the primaries.
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