With talks about coalition brewing forward of the 2027 election, former Labour Get together (LP) presidential marketing campaign spokesman Kenneth Okonkwo says he’ll assist a contemporary southerner or northerner who’s prepared to vacate workplace after a four-year single tenure.
He hinged his resolution on fairness and equity to each northern and southern areas of the nation, in step with the unwritten rule of rotational presidency.
“Everyone ought to come collectively. It’s one thing that may be mentioned. Who’s going to do 4 years goes to affect who I’m going to assist as a result of I nonetheless consider in fairness and justice,” Okonkwo stated on the Sunday version of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Tv.
The lawyer, who dumped the Labour Get together in February 2025, stated he’s open to becoming a member of the coalescing coalition to trounce President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the subsequent ballot.
Talks a few coalition have been gaining momentum of late and had been heightened by the defection of former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai from the APC to the Social Democratic Get together (SDP).
El-Rufai has been pictured with the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, amongst different powerbrokers within the opposition. Like El-Rufai, Okonkwo lately met with Atiku, saying Nigeria wants cooperation to defeat the ruling APC within the subsequent ballot.
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Okonkwo described the APC authorities as incompetent, saying the opposition should put up a formidable entrance to wrest energy from the incumbent within the subsequent election.
He stated, “My sport plan is straightforward. If the opposition is severe about wresting energy from this incompetent authorities, they have to all come collectively and act like one as a result of that was what APC did in 2013 and that was what helped them to wrest energy in 2015.
“I consider in coalition. After I was leaving, I stated I’m open to discussions with each group to consolidate the opposition in order that we are able to take out this authorities.”
‘Advanced And Difficult’
The lawyer described the 2027 election as sophisticated and complicated however stated the coalition might focus on the modalities for victory within the ballot.
Okonkwo stated, “2027 is among the most complex and complicated occasions within the political historical past of Nigeria as a result of we’ve this gentleman’s settlement – eight years within the South, eight years within the North.
“Now, when an incumbent just isn’t doing properly, and in the midst of his tenure, it’s a very tough factor to alter or to venture what’s going to occur.
“Would you say you wish to get a contemporary particular person from the South? The North will say meaning he’ll do one other eight years. They are going to be scared, and politicians aren’t superb at being trusted.
“Would you permit an incompetent authorities to proceed simply since you wish to sacrifice the entire of Nigeria? Simply since you wish to depart an incumbent authorities to complete eight years?
“Would you say let it go to the North when it has simply been 4 years within the South? The South would say you might be short-changing us. So, it’s a very sophisticated factor.
“The perfect factor if politicians had been to be trusted is to have a free, honest major the place each certified particular person, whether or not South or North, would partake in it. And whoever would emerge would comply with do 4 years, whether or not from the South or the North.
“If he [northerner) does four years, it would have been shared between North and South – four years each, and then it returns to the South.
“Then if a Southern person, a fresh person wins, he will do only four years to complete the eight years. Then, it will go to the north, where it will spend eight years.
“So, if the north agrees that the person there now is not doing well but it is not yet our turn but we can do four years – if the person emerges from the free and fair elections because if you begin to regiment it and say he won’t do primary, then it will be a selective thing, not democratic.”
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