Nigerian actor and politician Chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo has stated that the worst of the Labour Party is better than the best of the All Progressives Congress.
He stated this while responding
to a comment by Kassim Afegbua, a representative of the APC.
Afegbua had previously, on an
interview with ARISE NEWS, said that Peter Obi’s inability to solve the
conflict in Labour Party means that he would have been unable to rule over
Nigeria, and would have made him a bad president.
Okonkwo, in an interview with
ARISE NEWSDAY on Wednesday, said that the APC has been the “scourge and the
worst thing that has happened to anybody in Africa”, saying that since the
party came into power, several companies had left Nigeria, amidst other
socio-economic and security troubles, and the APC, as the ruling party, has not
been able to resolve the ongoing problems in Nigeria, but is always looking to
discredit Peter Obi.
He said, “The worst of Labour
Party is still better than the best of APC, and you can quote me on that. They
cannot even organise National Convention, they cannot even bring out clean
people to govern their party or govern Nigeria, what a tragedy.”
The Labour Party Chieftain said
that Obi is not the Chairman of Labour Party to be able to resolve issues
within the party in an instant but is just a member who still has to follow due
process to get something done.
He also said that Peter Obi is
not the President or a government official, and that the APC is always calling
on him as a matter of their “incompetence and joblessness and
nothing-to-doism.”
Okonkwo the addressed the
recent NLC takeover of the Labour Party due to leadership and the recent
national convention that was held, saying, “The idea that somebody will go to a
backyard and purportedly say he has organised a national Convention without delegates
from the ward, from the local government, from the states, to the national
convention, is illegal, and that is irrespective of whatever the constitution
of the party says because the constitution of Nigeria is supreme, and the act
of the National Assembly is superior to the constitution of the parties.
As I’m talking to you now,
Abure and his members are no longer the executive of Labour party by the
constitution. They have exceeded four years, and again, since they are not
members of the executive of the principal organ of the party, they don’t have
any right to organise any convention, they have ceased to be members.
“So, what you had was the
members now organised stakeholders meeting, because there is a lacuna, there is
a vacuum in the leadership of Labour Party, to chart the way forward, and they
should because nature does not exist in a vacuum. So, having a stakeholders
meeting- and of course NLC is a stakeholder in Labour Party, no doubt about
that, there is nothing wrong with that. So, I think with time, they will
fashion now the best legal way to go about it. But for now, the Abure executive
has nothing to do with laying claim on the leadership of Labour Party.”
Speaking to the allegations
against NLC President Joe Ajaero which claim he has a pact with the APC to
destabilise the Labour Party, Okonkwo said, “That executive has been tainted
with allegations of forgery, so I would not be surprised if they continue on
that lane, forging things. The same Joe Ajaero that mobilised people to throw
away the faction of Apapa in order to save Abure and save the integrity of
Labour Party is the same Ajaero that they are now trying to label that he is
doing what he is doing in order to have political ambition, that is very
childish to say the least.
“That somebody is telling you
to obey your own constitution, obey the constitution of Nigeria, obey the
electoral act, and then suddenly the person now has an ambition. And may I ask
respectfully, what is wrong in having ambition? Is it not the ambition of amber
that is trying to destroy Labour Party? And now he’s talking about ambition.
Who is really the person talking about ambition? Joe Ajaero is the president of
the Nigeria Labour Congress and I know it as a fact that what they’re saying is
blackmail.”
“They are saying all they are
saying to cover up their incompetence and corruption in the handling of Labour
Party affairs. Their regime is over,” he said.
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