The Labour Party’s Kenneth Okonkwo has stated that those who attribute Peter Obi’s performance in the recently concluded presidential election to religion or ethnicity are “ignorant and wicked.”
Okonkwo, a prominent Nollywood actor, argued that no politician in the country’s history had achieved the spread and votes that Obi had under a relatively unknown political party.
His comment, made in a tweet on Tuesday, comes in the wake of a leaked audio discussion between his principal and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church.
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The supposed audio chat, Obi referred to the election as a “religious battle” and asked Oyedepo for assistance in reaching out to his constituents.
Okonkwo, on the other hand, claimed that some people were “trumping up meaningless and unfounded claims to discredit Obi’s records.”
In addition, the Nollywood celebrity stated that data indicated that all tribes and religions voted for Obi in the February 25 poll.
He wrote, “Anybody who ascribes ethnic or religious implication to Obi’s phenomenal success in the 2023 presidential election is ignorant and mischievous. There’s no Politician in Nigeria’s history that contested the presidential election in Nigeria for the first time under a relatively unknown political party against two established two major political parties that achieved the spread and votes that Obi achieved. His performance in the FCT and Lagos, which have the most cosmopolitan nature in Nigeria, shows that Hausas, Yoruba, Igbo, all tribes, Muslims, Christians and every religion voted for him.
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“Seeing his powerful petition to reclaim his mandate, stolen through open robbery by INEC and the failed APC ruling party, they are trumping up useless and baseless allegations to taint his records. A party that brought out a sick old drug baron and religious bigot who chose same faith ticket in a multi-religious Nigeria should be too ashamed to even speak in the public space. But this is the low they’ve brought Nigeria to and they will soon be cleaned out from the leadership cadre in Nigeria, by God’s grace.”
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