Okonkwo, Nollywood pioneer, joins Obi movement after APC exit says *Octogenarians can’t determine my future

Kenneth Okonkwo, pioneer Nollywood actor, has taken his protest against the All Progressives Congress (APC) further by finally joining the movement to elect Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) next year, saying Nigeria’s future rested with the former Governor of Anambra State.

This is coming about a week after quitting the fold of the ruling party, over the choice of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, its flagbearer for the 2023 presidential election to choose Shettima Kashim as the running mate, in what has since been termed as Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Okonkwo, who was among the first to announce his resignation from the party, where he fought strenuously to enthrone into power in the past, immediately after Tinubu’s announcement of Shettima, for handing the APC over to “octogenarians” to run, saying that the current ticket had hit hard at the very foundation of the nation’s ethos.

Though he said he had not joined any political party yet, the versatile actor, made famous by the Living in Bondage film that changed Nigeria’s movie industry after it broke in 1993,  said he had become Obisentric, referring to the Obi movement that is currently making wave across the country.

Okonkwo who revealed how he warned Ndigbo that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would be their greatest political undoing, said the prediction had since come to past, as their loyalty to the party in the last two decades had left them with nothing.

Dismissing the emergence of Delta State Governor, an Igbo, as the running mate to the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, he said it did not compensate, because the governor represented the South South, while the issue at stake was that of the South East as a zone.