Kenneth Okonkwo, a key member of the Labour Party (LP), has made strong accusations against the party’s leadership under Julius Abure.
Okonkwo claimed that the current LP executive is behaving like a “secret society” and refers to them as “workers of iniquity.”
In a recent interview with Symfoni, Okonkwo expressed his disappointment with the Abure-led team, labeling them as “clowns.” He criticized their inability to organize a proper national convention and questioned their integrity.
“My own Labour Party is not impressing me. Assuming they continue on this trajectory where they cannot even hold an acceptable national convention, then you’d tell me I’d be there?
“Those people are clowns. It is the greatest joke I have ever seen in a political party and then you want to position yourself as a party of integrity. You cannot give what you don’t have,” Okonkwo stated.
Okonkwo’s remarks come amid a leadership crisis within the LP. Since 2023, when deputy national chairman Lamidi Apapa declared himself the acting national chairman, tensions have been high.
The situation escalated in 2024 when Abure was re-elected as chairman during a controversial national convention in Anambra.
Okonkwo has made it clear that he does not support the current leadership and called for them to step down, stating, “Aburi and his cohorts, their tenure is over. Let Aburi and his cohorts get behind me. They are workers of iniquity. I don’t rate them. That executive is in charge of the secret society. They should be apprehended.”
