Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - Actor-turned-politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has announced his resignation from the Labour Party effective February 25, 2025. Okonkwo announced this in a lengthy post on X today February 11. He mentioned that his decision to resign from the party is because the party is “non-existent as presently constituted.”His statement in part reads
“In the Constitution of Labour Party, the tenure of the ward, local
government, and state party executives is three years (See Article 15(2)(3)(4)
of the Labour Party Constitution). Having conducted no congresses at these
levels within the constitutionally allowed tenure of the executives, their
regimes have effectively expired.
The former National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his
former National Working Committee, having conducted no national convention
known to law, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), and the courts having held that the issue of the leadership of a
political party is the internal affair of a political party for which the
courts do not have the jurisdiction to entertain, there’s no effective
leadership of Labour Party at the national level.
The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee, which was duly and
legally set up by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party,
after the non-recognition of Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC) by
INEC, and was given six months to conduct congresses and the convention, was
the only viable option towards salvaging the Labour Party.
Unfortunately, Abure and his colleagues, with the collaboration of
outside forces, expectedly, being political jobbers, launched unnecessary legal
challenges against this Caretaker Committee that have inhibited it from
functioning.”
Okonkwo, also a lawyer, said that if Abure was interested in the
emergence of a southern candidate in Labour Party to challenge President Bola
Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, he would cede the position of
national chairman to the north.
“Since the party is non-existent as presently constituted, I am
constrained to resign my membership of the party to all Nigerians of goodwill
who supported us when we needed them most and to pledge my continued loyalty to
the Nigerian people in all I will decide to do in my political future,” Okonkwo
added.
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.”
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