A former Nollywood actor and spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has announced his resignation from the party.

In a press statement on Tuesday, Okonkwo said he took the decision because the party is not ready for the 2027 general election.

He also alleged that the party is suffering from internal and leadership crises.

He said, “My entrance into politics is for good governance, and I will continue to work for it to ensure that Nigeria becomes a great country of incorruptible men.

“This aim can no longer be realized within the Labour Party as presently constituted.

“Since the party is non-existent as presently constituted, I am constrained to resign my membership of the party.

“To all Nigerians of goodwill who supported us when we needed them most, I pledge my continued loyalty to the Nigerian people in all I will decide to do in my political future.”

He also expressed his readiness to pitch his tent with another party.

“This resignation takes effect from the 25th of February, 2025, which marks the second anniversary of the presidential election of 2023. After that, I will be at liberty to join other well-meaning and like-minded Nigerians in charting a great future of good governance for this great country blessed by God,” he added.

Okonkwo lamented that the caretaker committee set up to handle the affairs of the LP is being hindered by unnecessary litigation.

He accused the National Chairman of the LP, Julius Abure, of allegedly prioritizing personal interests over the party’s survival.

“The former National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his former National Working Committee, having conducted no national convention known to law, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the courts having held that the issue of the leadership of a political party is the internal affair of a political party for which the courts do not have the jurisdiction to entertain, there’s no effective leadership of the Labour Party at the national level.

“The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee, which was duly and legally set up by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party after the non-recognition of the Abure-led National Working Committee (NWC) by INEC, and was given six months to conduct congresses and the convention, was the only viable option towards salvaging the Labour Party.

“Unfortunately, Abure and his colleagues, with the collaboration of outside forces—expectedly, being political jobbers—launched unnecessary legal challenges against this Caretaker Committee that have inhibited it from functioning. It’s been more than six months since the inauguration of the committee, and the committee has not even taken off, leading many to conclude that the objective of these politicians of bread and butter, along with their outside collaborators, is to bog down the serious members of the Labour Party with frivolous and unnecessary litigation until the 2027 election is over.

“Isn’t it curious that a national executive of a political party whose elected members are defecting every day to other parties, and who cannot wage legal battles to recover these seats for their party, is waging ferocious legal battles to maintain their destructive, choking hold on the party?” he asserted.