{"id":178684,"date":"2025-09-13T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:40:30","slug":"2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo","title":{"rendered":"2027: We must save Nigerians from APC \u2013 Kenneth Okonkwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lawyer and politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticized President Bola Tinubu for vacationing in Paris while Nigerians face worsening hardship, insecurity, and failing public services.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, Okonkwo described Nigeria as \u201ca country in distress,\u201d citing widespread instability across critical sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are dying in Zamfara, people are dying in Katsina, yet the President says he is going on work leave,\u201d Okonkwo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no part of Nigeria today where you can confidently promote tourism or create an enabling environment for work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the education and healthcare systems are on the brink of collapse, with unions threatening fresh strikes, while oil industry contractors remain unpaid since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at what is happening with NEPA, look at our educational system where ASUU is threatening another strike, clear evidence of instability in education. Doctors and nurses are also threatening to strike, exposing the instability in healthcare,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer further warned that the level of suffering in the country has reached alarming levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Nigeria has more malnourished children than Sudan. Just recently, a woman lost her child to malaria because she could not afford transport to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the level of suffering Nigerians are enduring,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Okonkwo accused the President of ignoring the troubles of citizens while enjoying luxury abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny nation where education, healthcare, and infrastructure are collapsing is a country in distress. Yet, in the face of this crisis, the President is vacationing in Paris, wearing the finest suits, and laughing while Nigerians wallow in poverty and pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians must be saved from the APC,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Lawyer and politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticized President Bola Tinubu for vacationing in Paris while Nigerians face worsening hardship, insecurity, and failing public services. Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, Okonkwo described Nigeria as \u201ca country in distress,\u201d citing widespread instability across critical sectors. \u201cPeople are dying in Zamfara, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,5997,254],"class_list":["post-178684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-kenneth-okonkwo","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027: We must save Nigerians from APC \u2013 Kenneth Okonkwo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lawyer and politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticized President Bola Tinubu for vacationing in Paris while Nigerians fa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: We must save Nigerians from APC \u2013 Kenneth Okonkwo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lawyer and politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticized President Bola Tinubu for vacationing in Paris while Nigerians fa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-13T06:39:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-13T07:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757736823.149432.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: We must save Nigerians from APC \u2013 Kenneth Okonkwo\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-13T06:39:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-13T07:40:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757736823.149432.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"kenneth okonkwo\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-we-must-save-nigerians-from-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\",\"name\":\"2027: We must save Nigerians from APC \u2013 Kenneth Okonkwo - 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