As campaigns for the 2023 general elections enter full gear, a prominent member of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said that it is a no-contest for LP’s flag bearer, Peter Obi.
In an interview on Channels TV, Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor, noted that Mr Obi has already won by polls conducted by independent bodies.
In September, the ‘Living in Bondage’ actor made headlines when he said the presidential candidates of the PDP and APC, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, should step down for Mr Obi.
In a recent interview, Okonkwo said the results of three polls conducted by the Anap Foundation, We Together and Bloomberg show that Mr Obi is progressively taking the lead.
“In the first one, he scored 23. In the second one, he scored 53, and in the third one, 75.
“Soon and very soon, before the election reaches when the two candidates would unravel, and I’m sure they are already unravelling, it will now be Peter Obi and others. Because then collectively in the poll, they will not have up to five per cent,” he said.
Peter Obi’s turn
Speaking, the ‘Living in Bondage’ actor said the two other main contestants, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are playing sectional politics.
He said: “As I have said, Atiku went to the North and said Northerners should vote only for somebody from the North. Not Yoruba, not Igbo. What can be more ethnic than that?
“Tinubu went to Ogun State and said it is the turn of the Yorubas, and when it comes back to the Yorubas, it is my turn. That is the meaning of an EMI loan. What can be more sectional than that?”
