ADC National Working Committee member Kenneth Okonkwo has spoken with considerable emotion about what he described as Peter Obi’s failure to honour the sacrifices of ordinary Nigerians who gave everything to his 2023 presidential campaign, saying that the least Obi owed those supporters was a fierce and unrelenting fight to defend the mandate they believed he had won.
Okonkwo made the remarks during an interview on Hard Copy on Channels Television, on Friday May 8, 2026, where he addressed the growing distance between himself and Obi, a man he had once campaigned for with great passion.
He explained that his frustration was not simply political but deeply personal, rooted in what he saw as a betrayal of everyone who had put their safety, livelihoods, and futures on the line for a candidate who ultimately chose comfort over confrontation.
He recalled that the 2023 election campaign and its aftermath had exacted a heavy toll on real people. Supporters were attacked. Businesses were lost. Lives were disrupted and, in some cases, ended. These were not abstractions to Okonkwo but the lived consequences of a political struggle that people had entered because they believed in the cause and in the man leading it.
In his words, Kenneth Okonkwo said, “I wanted him to fight ferociously for his mandate. A lot of people died. A lot of people were beaten. A lot of people were destroyed. A lot of people’s businesses went in. Some people left all they were doing for this cause. What have you to be sacrificed? You are not willing to sacrifice anything. What are you doing in politics?” he said.
Okonkwo contrasted this with what he believed genuine political leadership demanded. He said that anyone who enters politics must be prepared to meet every challenge head on, regardless of personal cost. He expressed this view without ambiguity, stating that politics is not an enterprise suited to those unwilling to endure hardship….See More
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