Kenneth Okonkwo, former Labour Party Campaign spokesperson, has criticized the apparent shift in Labour Party leadership’s stance on reserving the 2027 presidential ticket for Peter Obi and the Abia State governorship ticket for Alex Otti.
In an interview with Channels TV from 21:52, Kenneth Okonkwo detailed how factional LP Chairman Julius Abure changed his position following recent party turbulence. “Before convention they were saying the ticket is reserved for Peter Obi and Otti,” Okonkwo stated. “When INEC declared their seat vacant, these people went and constituted a caretaker committee. And what were they saying after? No, the ticket is no longer reserved for anybody.”
The former spokesman suggested ulterior motives behind the reversal made by Abure and his executive members: “Obviously, the ticket is now reserved for APC if it is no longer reserved for anybody,” he said. “You cannot approbate and reprobate. You cannot say you’re reserving this ticket for this person when you were not having a problem, then you start having a problem, and you’re saying you’re abandoning the person.”
He also questioned recent legal proceedings involving the party. “Then the court will give a judgment and put one sentence that is an abracadabra that nobody will understand,” he noted. “Imagine a court saying this case is not justiciable; I’m hearing that for the first time in my life as a lawyer.”
He described the situation as one which indicts the APC as being the sponsors of the internal conflict in the party: “You have the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob, and once there is no consistency, you will know that somebody is beating the drum that people who are on the bank of the river are dancing to.”
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