The management of the Labour Celebration has disowned its former Presidential Marketing campaign Council spokesman, Kenneth Okonkwo, pronouncing he’s not a card-carrying member of LP.
The Nationwide Secretary of LP, Umar Farouk made the explanation in an unique interview with The PUNCH.
Farouk additionally admonished the felony practitioner to go back to Nollywood and embody his performing profession, pronouncing he lacks the attributes of a just right baby-kisser.
The Labour Celebration Nationwide Secretary was once reacting to Tuesday’s press observation by means of Okonkwo that he had resigned his celebration club.
Within the observation, the previous LP marketing campaign spokesperson mentioned the celebration was once no longer in a position for the 2027 normal elections because of inside and management crises.
He mentioned, “My front to politics is for just right governance, and I will be able to proceed to paintings for it to safeguard that Nigeria turns into a superior nation of incorruptible males. This attempt can not be realised inside the Labour Celebration, as right now constituted.
“Since the party is non-existent as presently constituted, I am constrained to resign my membership of the party. To all Nigerians of goodwill who supported us when we needed them most, I pledge my continued loyalty to the Nigerian people in all I will decide to do in my political future.”
Proceeding, the Nollywood actor additionally mentioned he was once noticeable to pitching his political tent somewhere else.
“This resignation takes effect from the 25th of February, 2025, which marks the second anniversary of the presidential election of 2023, after which I will be at liberty to join other well-meaning and like-minded Nigerians in charting a great future of good governance for this great country blessed by God,” he added.
Okonkwo mentioned the tenure of the celebration’s management had lengthy elapsed and the caretaker committee all set as much as salvage the celebration were hindered by means of useless litigation.
He criticised the Nationwide Chairman of the LP, Julius Abure, for allegedly prioritising non-public pursuits over the celebration’s survival.
“The previous Nationwide Chairman of Labour Celebration, Julius Abure, and his former Nationwide Running Committee, having carried out refuse nationwide conference identified to regulation, in keeping with the Separate Nationwide Electoral Fee and the courts having held that the problem of the management of a political celebration is the interior affair of a political celebration for which the courts do not need the jurisdiction to entertain, there’s refuse efficient management of Labour Celebration on the nationwide degree.
“The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee, which was once duly and legally arrange by means of the Nationwide Government Council of the Labour Celebration, nearest the non-recognition of Abure-led Nationwide Running Committee by means of INEC, and was once given six months to behavior congresses and the conference, was once the one viable possibility against salvaging the Labour Celebration.
“Sadly, Abure and his colleagues, with the collaboration of out of doors forces, expectedly, being political jobbers, introduced useless felony demanding situations in contrast Caretaker Committee that experience inhibited it from functioning. It’s greater than six months nearest the founding of the committee, and the committee has no longer even taken off, well-known many to conclude that the target of those politicians of bread and butter with their out of doors collaborators is to lavatory indisposed the intense participants of Labour Celebration with frivolous and useless litigation until the 2027 election is over.
“Isn’t it curious that a national executive of a political party whose elected members are defecting everyday to other parties, and who can not wage legal battles to recover these seats for their party, is waging ferocious legal battles to maintain their destructive, choking hold on the party,” Okonkwo mentioned.
On the other hand, reacting, Farouk mentioned Okonkwo’s motion didn’t in point of fact come to the LP as a amaze on account of his famed position as a Nollywood actor.
Pace recalling that the legal professional left the celebration ultimate occasion, the LP chieftain accused him of looking to drag the celebration within the dust for inexpensive recognition.
He mentioned, “How repeatedly is he committing to renounce from the celebration? Has he forgotten that he resigned about 3, 4 or 5 months in the past? It’s only when he desires to seek out relevance that he opens his mouth to start out speaking once more. I’ve already addressed that factor with him.
“He simply reveals pleasure throwing Abure’s identify round. Because of this everytime he seeks relevance, he begins speaking Labour Celebration and Abure. Let him walk. He has been in APGA, PDP and the APC. So what’s he doing in Labour Celebration?
“Let him carry his bag and return to Nollywood where he came from. He should leave us alone. He doesn’t deserve to be in any political party because he is not a good politician.”