Veteran actor and former spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has accused former presidential candidate Peter Obi of betrayal amid ongoing internal party disputes.
In a viral interview with Symfoni, trending since Saturday, Okonkwo, who left the Labour Party in February 2025, claimed that Obi disregarded his advice and returned to support the embattled Julius Abure-led faction of the party, despite alleged warnings.
According to Okonkwo, Obi was misled by LP executives who falsely claimed recognition from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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Okonkwo stated, “Any politician that knows what he’s doing cannot be betrayed by another. If there is anybody that betrayed the other, I can say it emphatically that Peter Obi betrayed me.”
He elaborated, “The Julius Abure-led LP members lied to Obi that the Independent National Electoral Commission had accepted them and Obi surreptitiously went back to them but I told him: ‘Sir, you have made a public statement on integrity and even if INEC has accepted them, that is not a criterion for you to go back and start dealing with them because they have shown that they are not democratic. If you go back to them, they will destroy your political career and everything you have said about integrity will die.'”
Okonkwo asserted that despite his private urgings for Obi not to align with a group he described as “undemocratic” and “agents of the government,” Obi publicly endorsed them.
“I told Obi that these people had become agents in the hands of the government to destabilise him. What they did was absolutely illegal and unconstitutional, I told him that if he went back to them, I wouldn’t join him in doing so,” Okonkwo said.
He further recounted, “Thereafter, I called all the people that were in the inner circle and told them the same thing about what Obi was trying to do. I told them he wanted to go back with the Abure people and if he did, I wouldn’t go back with him because I do not swallow back my words.”
Okonkwo claimed that within 72 hours of this conversation, Obi publicly endorsed the Abure faction, with one of their leaders sending him a video to mock him.
“It was when INEC dissociated itself from Abure that Obi came out to start acting neutral but I told him he could not be neutral and something had to be done,” he added.
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