Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi’s spokesperson in the general election of 2023, Kenneth Okonkwo, has proposed that his favourite candidate run against Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
Speaking on Channels Television, Okonkwo expressed his belief that a younger presidential candidate will be sucked up by individuals he referred to as political sharks, and that a someone from the old cadre is what is required.
The attorney and former actor continued by mentioning former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, stating that if he were elected president and brought Nigeria back to the Obasanjo period, the PDP’s presidential candidate in the general election of 2023 would have been a hero.
“Any officer of the middle or lower cadre never succeeded in Nigeria, and there is a reason for that, and that is why in Nigeria, we need a man of conscience who is experienced, who might even be from the old cadre that has made up his mind that he wants a new Nigeria.
“If you are expecting a younger person to come in, amid these sharks, they will swallow him up.
“And I’m telling you, Obama can come to Nigeria and will not win the election. Not because people will not vote for him, but they will steal it from him.
“So what we have now in Nigeria is that we have a system that needs to be fought, that needs to be taken out.”
Asked if he can trust the people in the coalition to cause change, since they are a combination of PDP and APC, two political parties he said Nigerians no longer like, he said:
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“Okay, now let’s look at it this way, assuming an Atiku comes into power, assuming and takes us back to the Obasanjo years. He would have been a hero.
“He would have paid up all our debts. He would not acquire new debts. He would have made sure there is no security problem all around Nigeria.
“He was the Vice President. I’m just using him as an example, because he’s the only person that has been in the presidency since 1999.”
