A spokesman of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has condemned those linking the performance of the party’s flagbearer, Peter Obi, in the just concluded presidential election to religion or ethnicity.
OsunDaily News reports that the veteran Nollywood actor gave the condemnation in a series of tweets via his official Twitter handle on Tuesday.
Okonkwo said that politicians and Nigerians ascribing Obi’s performance in the February 25 presidential election to religion or ethnicity are ignorant and mischievous.
He asserted that evidence showed that all tribes and religions voted for Obi in the February 25 election, stressing that any attempt to link Obi to any religious or ethnic sentiments will fail.
Okonkwo said that some people were trumping up useless and baseless allegations to taint Obi’s records”. He insisted that no politician in the country’s history under a relatively unknown political party achieved the votes and success recorded by the LP candidate in the concluded 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.
“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.”
