Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), criticized Peter Obi over comments suggesting he would serve only one term in office. Okonkwo said Obi’s stance raised concerns for him about political representation and the interests of the Southeast, according to a video from 21:14 posted on Symfoni.
He argued that the Southeast has yet to produce a democratically elected executive president since Nigeria’s independence and maintained that any opportunity for the region should be maximized through full-term representation within Nigeria’s rotational political arrangement.
According to him, “First of all, on the day he agreed he would do four years, that’s when I knew that he has no interest of Ndigbo at heart. From 1960 when we had our independence, no Igbo man has been an executive president democratically. And you are telling me as a Nigerian from Igbo extraction that I will line up to support a candidate that will do only four years. Why I fought in 2022/2023 that it must come to the Southeast and I know we won that election is so that we’ll do our eight years, and now the turn of the South has been taken by Tinubu.”…Read_More…