Veteran Nollywood actor cum former spokesperson of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has asserted that the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has no reason to lose sleep over the current crisis rocking the party.
News360 Info reports that LP has been enmeshed in a series of crisis, from the allegation of theft against the National Chairman, Julius Abure, to a tussle of party ownership with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
While recalling how the former Governor of Anambra State changed the political landscape with the emergence of a third force, Kenneth Okonkwo said politics is about the candidate and not the political party,
He said, “2027 is about Peter Obi, not about Labour Party. Anybody who is bringing Peter Obi on the table, is bringing the new Nigeria, a new third force, absolute victory.
When you come to elections, you take about candidates, not political parties. Peter Obi electrified Labour Party. He has no business to lose sleep over whatever is happening in any political party. How many months did he joined Labour Party? And he made what he made. People are loyal to his person. The new Nigeria is loyal to his people.”
