Kenneth Okonkwo, a former Spokesman for the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council, has denied betraying the party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi during the 2023 election.
Okonkwo, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, said he never consulted any of Obi’s rivals during the poll.
He said, “When I worked for him, I never consulted any politician. I am making a public statement. I never talked to any political party. I was 100% loyal.
“When I left, I told the whole world…I said from now onward, I am not going to speak for this person again.
“They don’t understand what betrayal means. Anybody who is writing or saying anything about me is a reflection of who that person is; not a reflection of who I am.”
In July 2024, Okonkwo, a fiery supporter of Obi during the last poll, parted ways with the former Anambra governor and dumped the Labour Party.
The actor-turned-lawyer-turned-politician had expressed his disappointment with LP’s intra-party squabbles and Obi’s failure to address it.
On Sunday, Okonkwo, who is now an active member of the coalition hoping to trounce President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 election, challenged Obi to tell the world how he betrayed him after leaving the party.
“I will allow Obi to be entitled to his opinion. In our religion, we don’t fight for God. Since he made an insinuation that Jesus had 12 (disciples) and one turned against him. That means he’s claiming he is the Jesus in the analogy.
“How can you betray somebody you are not working for?” Okonkwo asked, even as he denied obtaining money or a house from Obi during the last electioneering process.
