LP Chieftain Demands Protest Against Obi Over Okonkwo’s “Persecution”

A former Chairman of the Labour Party in Enugu State, Barr Casmir Agbo, has called on the people of Enugu North Senatorial District to protest against the legal suit filed against actor-turned lawyer, Mr Kenneth Okonkwo, by the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Party, Mr Peter Obi.

The call is sequel to the planned visit of Obi to Nsukka to lead the campaign of NDC’s senatorial candidate, Bishop Oscar Ossai, ahead of the by-election scheduled for June 20, 2026. THE WHISTLER reports that Okonkwo hails from Nsukka.

Agbo in a trending post condemned Obi’s legal suit against Okonkwo, describing it as “prosecuting the same man who toiled for him during the 2023 election”. In his words, “If it were to be in the North or West, our demand today would be to let him know that he is prosecuting our son, Barr Kenneth Okonkwo, who toiled for him. I expect a big protest to demand the withdrawal of the suit against him today. We must act as a people that were born and met the first indigenous University in Nigeria at Nsukka. Obi’s Agulu town is not bigger or more developed than Nsukka.”

He reminded Obi that Nsukka, through UNN, trained him, adding that, “We must not be naive in everything. Kenneth popularly known as Andy Okeke has paid his dues.”

Agbo, who was the state LP chairman during the 2023 general election, also alleged that Obi worked against LP’s guber candidate, Barr Chijioke Edeoga, in favour of Gov Peter Mbah, who then was in the Peoples Democratic Party.
In his words, “What happened in Enugu State during 2023 general elections are very fresh in our minds. We are blaming some of our people and shouting that they worked against Edeoga during that election, but our greatest enemy in that election was Mr Peter Obi. From the very day Obi came into the party, he wanted another person and when the party endorsed Edeoga, he pitched his tent with PDP in the state.”

Agbo claimed that Peter Obi made everything possible to deny LP victory during the election.

According to him, “Let me put it in a way that many will understand it very well. Peter Obi never campaigned for LP in Enugu State; even to the extent that he stopped me from reading my address at a point by sending Clement Ojukwu to tell me to stop at a certain point at Okpara Square when I was reading about the failure of PDP in the state. Secondly, he avoided us like a plague whenever we met at a meeting in Enugu.”