2023: Tinubu, Atiku asked to step down for Peter Obi

Nollywood actor and lawyer, Kenneth Okonkwo, has asked Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and his Peoples Democratic Party’s counterpart, Bola Tinubu to step down for Peter Obi of Labour Party.

Okonkwo, who recently joined the Labour Party, in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, urged the Igbos to approach the forthcoming election from a nationalistic perspective.

He also said if he ever saw the presidential candidates of the PDP and APC, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, he would beg them to step down and throw their weight behind the LP presidential candidate.

His words, “Nigeria is yearning for a change. We’re yearning for a new Nigeria. Whoever is a Nigerian and is telling you that they are happy with the status quo, such person is doing that for personal, not national interest,” he said.

‘‘Obi is the best candidate for Nigeria. The burden of the survival of Nigeria is now on the hearts of everybody, including the terrorists, because Nigeria has to survive. So, everyone is looking for the survival of Nigeria and a way of escape.

“Peter Obi is now the symbol of that escape, and everybody should fall in line. If I see Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, I’ll beg them to step down and support Peter Obi’s becoming president.”

“Security, economy and fight against corruption have collapsed. The APC has failed, and their failure is built on the foundation of the loss of the PDP that died first and acknowledged that, so Nigeria is yearning for a change.