{"id":2496,"date":"2024-06-20T23:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:08:37","slug":"i-may-return-to-apc-kenneth-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/i-may-return-to-apc-kenneth-okonkwo\/","title":{"rendered":"I May Return To APC &#8211; Kenneth Okonkwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A prominent member of the Labour Party (LP) and veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo has revealed that he may return to his former party the APC.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He made the revelation while speaking in an interview on a news platform, saying that he is considering the action as a result of recent happenings in the Labour Party.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the reasons he faulted the Labour Party was what he described as their inability to conduct a national convention.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><b>According to him, \u201cAny party that is not visibly committed to the welfare of Nigerians will most likely not see me there. I don&#8217;t rule out going back to anything because change is constant,\u201d he said.<\/b><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was a spokesperson at the presidential level and I did not know that the Labour Party was having a convention. When I saw it on social media, I thought it was fake. They were rejected in Umuahia because it was a leprous convention,\u201d he continued.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okonkwo, a presidential campaign spokesperson for the party in the 2023 election, described the LP as \u201ca secret society led by a group of clowns\u201d.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThose people are clowns. It is the greatest joke I have ever seen in a political party and then you want to position yourself as a party of integrity. You cannot give what you don\u2019t have,\u201d, he alleged.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The LP has been embroiled in a leadership crisis since Lamidi Apapa, deputy national chairman of the party (south), declared himself the acting national chairman last year.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent member of the Labour Party (LP) and veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo has revealed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}