Former Labour Party presidential campaign spokesman, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said he would support either a southerner or a northerner willing to vacate office after a single four-year term.
Okonkwo stated this on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources
with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television,
amid discussions about a coalition ahead of the 2027 election.
The Nollywood star-turned-politician based his decision on
equity and fairness between the northern and southern regions of the country,
in line with the unwritten rule of rotational presidency.
“Everybody should come together. It is something that can be
discussed. Who is going to do four years will influence who I am going to
support because I still believe in equity and justice,” he said.
Okonkwo, who resigned from the Labour Party in February,
said he was open to joining a coalition aiming to unseat President Bola Tinubu
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the next election.
Talks of a coalition have been
gaining momentum, further fuelled by the recent defection of former Kaduna
State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, from APC to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
The lawyer described the APC government as incompetent,
insisting that the opposition must form a strong alliance to wrest power from
the incumbent administration in the next election.
“My game plan is simple. If the opposition is serious about
taking power from this incompetent government, they must unite and act as one
because that was exactly what the APC did in 2013, which helped them win in
2015.
“I believe in coalition. When I was leaving, I said I was
open to discussions with every group to consolidate the opposition so that we
can remove this government,” he said.
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