The factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Abayomi Arabambi, has said that the resignation of Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, from the party is inconsequential to the party.
It would be recalled that Okonkwo announced his resignation from the Labour Party on Tuesday, claiming that the party is not ready for the 2027 elections.
Okonkwo said, “this resignation takes effect from the 25th of February, 2025, which marks the second anniversary of the presidential election of 2023, after which I will be at liberty to join other well-meaning and like-minded Nigerians in charting a great future of good governance for this great country blessed by God.”
Arabambi, who said this while reacting to the Okonkwo’s resignation in a statement, he made available to Vanguard in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, said “his resignation is good riddance to bad rubbish”, stressing that he should not speak about the Labour Party anymore.
He noted that “there is no leadership crisis in the Labour Party. It is just a figment of the imaginations of most of our detractors.”
Arabambi said, “Kenneth Okonkwo has resigned over five times and had been defending nothing and yet still parading himself as a member of Labour Party, telling us he is being objectives with his very poor and political analysis of bitterness”.
Arabambi claimed that the Nollywood actor has been in collusion with the ruling party as his loyalty was never with the Labour Party.
Arabambi said, “Our party has come to terms with the necessity or otherwise of this response having done plenty moments of soul-searching and introspection and have found it difficult to continue to keep mute when people who ignorant of where we found ourselves are talking continue to see themselves or been brainwashed as the loyal followers of our dear party and savior of our country”.
“With such an unfounded and outlandish allegations by Kenneth Okonkwo, stating no court has affirmed the leadership of Barr. Julius Abure and Alhaji Farouk Umar Ibrahim as National Chairman and National Secretary respectfully, Kenneth Okonkwo has thus assumed the status of a perpetually discredited misfits political dissidents who has further rendered his already torn banner of political relevance into tattered shreds”.
He said, “the Abure-led leadership remains the National hope of the Nigerian people that will rescue us from the deep hole that we find ourselves in today economy mess as his statement of bitterness has also exposed his level of legal knowledge which is full of lies and misplaced facts.
Kenneth Okonkwo’s mission of systematic de-marketing of Labour Party and criminal sabotage of our 2027 Presidential preparation has this finally ended with his resignation from our great party”.
