2023 PRESIDENCY: The Race Is Between Peter Obi And Others- Kenneth Okonkwo |WATCH VIDEO
AFNews Reporter
Oct 28, 2022
Ahead of next year's presidential election, Kenneth Okonkwo who is a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP) has opined that the race is between his party's presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi and others.
Okonkwo who featured as guest on Channels Television's Politics Today on Thursday asserted that Obi has already won the election, adding that the statistic on proves so.
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"He has already won, check the analysis like I have always told you; take it by polls, there are three polls that have come out, ANAP, We-Together and Bloomberg; in the first one he scored 23, in the second one 53 and in the third one he scored 75.
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"Soon and very soon, before the election reaches when the two candidates will unravel and I am sure they are already unravelling, then it will now be Peter Obi and others.
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"Because then collectively at the polling poll, they will not have up to five per cent and whenever you don't get up to five per cent you'll be classified as others.
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"So it is going to be Peter Obi and others, there is no other candidate.
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The Nollywood actor turned politicians stated that Peter Obi has displayed an uncanny character and has shown that he has the capacity to serve the nation as an impactful leader, unlike other major contested in the presidential races shown ethnic bias
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"Obi remains the one candidate who who is nationalistic in his approach and advocates for a united Nigeria where true transformation is possible"
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"Let's talk about sectional politics, as I have said, Atiku went to the north and said northerners should vote only for somebody from the North, not Yoruba, not Igbo. What can be more ethnic than that?
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"Tinubu went to Ogun state and said it is the turn of the Yorubas and when it comes down to the Yorubas, it is my turn; that is the meaning of E mi lokan.
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"What can be more sectional than that?
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"Peter Obi went to the Igbo people and at the risk of losing their votes, he told them, "do not vote for me because I am Igbo, vote for me because I'm a man of competence, character and capacity. And Nigerians, he said, it is not the turn of anybody. In 2023, it is the turn of Nigerians," the LP stalwart asserted.
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— AFNews Reporter