A lawyer and member of the coalition, Kenneth Okonkwo, on Friday said that the African Democratic Congress has established itself as the opposition voice in the country.
Okonkwo said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) only exist on paper as their leaders either support the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or the ADC, the political party adopted by the opposition coalition.
“Strictly speaking, there is no longer any party like the PDP or LP. They are just existing on paper because whoever is in the PDP is either supporting the APC or the ADC. That’s what it is,” he stated on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday.
“If the leaders of the PDP have come out openly to say they are supporting the presidential candidate of another political party, that’s the end of the party.
“You are there when a Wike who is supposed to be a leader of the PDP had told you openly that he was going to support the presidential candidate of another political party. So, where is he?
“And he had told you that anything and anybody that goes against whatever he says, he will ignite fire in his state. And he has told you that whatever he says is law. And in fairness to him, it has been like that,” Okonkwo, who was one of the spokespersons for Obi as the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, added.
He noted that the Labour Party lacked the structure to stand a chance in the 2027 presidential election.
“The ADC is the only political party that is the opposition party,” he said.
