{"id":166870,"date":"2025-06-14T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/abure-faction-misled-peter-obi-says-kenneth-okonkwo"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:30:15","slug":"abure-faction-misled-peter-obi-says-kenneth-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/abure-faction-misled-peter-obi-says-kenneth-okonkwo","title":{"rendered":"Abure Faction Misled Peter Obi Says Kenneth Okonkwo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Veteran actor-cum politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has claimed that the Julius Abure-led executive officer the Labour Party deceived the party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo alleged that Abure and his executives lied to Obi that they were recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, making the Ex-Anambra governor to go back to working with them.<\/p>\n

He lamented that despite informing Obi that the Abure\u2019s executive is an agent working for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s government, he (Obi) still endorsed them publicly.<\/p>\n

The former LP Presidential Campaign Council spokesman disclosed this in an interview with Symfoni TV released on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Julius Abure-led LP members lied to Obi that the Independent National Electoral Commission had accepted them and Obi surreptitiously went back to them but I told him: \u2018Sir, you have made a public statement on integrity and even if INEC has accepted them, that is not a criterion for you to go back and start dealing with them because they have shown that they are not democratic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go back to them, they will destroy your political career and everything you have said about integrity will die.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI told Obi that these people had become agents in the hands of the government to destabilise him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd after saying all those things, within like 72 hours, Obi went back to Abure\u2019s office to publicly endorse them and while he was there talking to them, one of the leaders in that executive sent me the video to mock me that the person I was fighting for against them has come to their office to endorse them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Veteran actor-cum politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has claimed that the Julius Abure-led executive officer the Labour Party deceived the party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. 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