By Ochogwu Sunday Nollywood actor and spokesman for the Labour Party presidential campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo, has expressed concern o...
By Ochogwu Sunday
Nollywood actor and spokesman for the Labour Party
presidential campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo, has expressed concern over the level of
borrowing the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government gave way to.
Okonkwo made the remark on Monday during an interview on
AIT’s morning show, ‘Kakaaki.’
The actor lamented that the government had borrowed to the
point where debt cannot even be serviced by the entire revenue.
He also accused some members of the All Progressives
Congress of stealing public funds to buy the party’s nomination forms to
contest for political positions.
The Labour Party faithful claimed he had rejected the APC
even before announcing his exit from the party.
Okonkwo who announced his exit from APC in July said, “I’ve
already ruled out the failures of APC so I rejected APC when I was in APC. I
never agreed to pay their nomination fee because I believed that it was a
result of corrupt tendencies.
“For you to tell a man to pay a nomination fee an amount
that four years of his salary cannot cover and you are telling me you are
fighting corruption, which corruption? Why do you think people are stealing 109
billion Naira in an APC-led government, the person that is supposed to guard
it, they need to have such money because even if you want to contest, they’ll
be asking you for billions to contest.
“So I rejected APC while I was in APC but you have to wait
for an alternative, for another option, that will accommodate your own beliefs
and remember, I resigned from APC before talking about any other party and when
I saw a new Nigeria about to emerge from Labour Party, what I have prayed, what
I wished for.
“It was only natural that I gravitated around it and that
was what happened. So I was very sentimentally attached to the redemption of
this country and I really thought that APC was going to provide that.
“When President Muhammadu Buhari was a military head of
state, you know what happened? He was paying our debt with crude oil and people
said he maintained his own salary. Look at what is happening now. He has
borrowed us into bondage, their debt cannot even be serviced by the entire
revenue.”
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