{"id":19079,"date":"2024-07-28T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19079"},"modified":"2024-07-28T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:16:58","slug":"kenneth-okonkwo-cuts-ties-with-peter-obi-citing-lack-of-leadership-and-party-building-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19079","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Okonkwo Cuts Ties with Peter Obi, Citing Lack of Leadership and Party-Building Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Former spokesperson of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Kenneth Okonkwo has hit hard at his Principal, Peter Obi while announcing a parting of ways between the duo, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazellenews.com\/africa-wire\/kenneth-okonkwo-hits-peter-obi-hard-as-they-part-ways-he-has-proved-that-even-if-people-vote-for-him-he-cant-secure-the-mandate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thegazellenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okonkwo, an actor and lawyer, was also part of the legal team that represented Peter Obi and Labour Party during the failed attempt to nullify the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal and the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a post on his X handle, Okonkwo stated that he could no longer offer his 100% loyalty and commitment to Obi due to some reasons he could not compromise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of such reasons was that Obi has not shown the capacity and ability to build a party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI no longer believe Peter Obi has what it takes to build a party,\u201d the actor cum lawyer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okonkwo was not done in his bashing of Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAbove all, he has proved that even if the people vote for him, he doesn\u2019t have what it takes to secure the mandate,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For this reason, Okonkwo decided to call off his political relationship with Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI don\u2019t intend to embark on such a campaign as we\u00a0 did in 2023, projecting a person who cannot sustain the victory even if he wins,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former spokesperson of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Kenneth Okonkwo has hit hard at his Principal, Peter Obi while announcing a parting of ways between the duo, reports thegazellenews.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19082,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions\/19082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}