By Steve Oko
Nollywood actor and constitutional lawyer, Mr. Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticized Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State over his current menace to the lifetime of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Get together, Mr. Peter Obi.
Okonkwo expressed whole disappointment over the governor’s unprovoked menace to Obi, which he described as an insult on the whole Igbo race.
Okonkwo maintained that the governor had no constitutional rights to demand Obi’s request for clearance earlier than visiting Edo State.
He mentioned the governor needs to be held liable if something untoward had been to occur to Obi.
“Whenever you end beating a madman, that’s when he has folks. If a strand of hair falls from Peter Obi, then you’ll know he has kinsmen. This can be a direct assault and menace to his life.
“Bear in mind, the governor made it clear. He mentioned his (Obi’s) safety can now not be assured. He used the phrase “by no means” if he doesn’t get permission from him. Let me ask Monday Okpebholo: Does it imply that when he finishes as a governor, earlier than he travels to any state in Nigeria, he must search the permission of all of the governors of that state? Does it imply that 200 million Nigerians, earlier than they step right into a state, must search permission from the governor?
“The legislation has even been made clear that you just don’t even want permission even once you wish to embark on a peaceable protest. If you happen to don’t want permission once you wish to embark on a protest, how can a Governor be speaking about permission to go to a state? That’s offensive. These are the questions. I reject his motion with the whole lot that’s inside me.
” , that’s what Julius Caesar mentioned in Julius Caesar. He mentioned that we’ve males above me which might be fats, sleek-headed males, akin to Monday Okpebholo who has a leaner, hungry look. They assume an excessive amount of of themselves. He mentioned such males are harmful. I’m telling you, in the event you go to his workplace, you’ll not even see him. He ought to cease it!”
When requested by one of many anchor individuals to average his mood and keep decorum, he thundered:”What decorum has the Governor maintained by threatening the lifetime of a Nigerian citizen?
“What decorum did he keep by saying what he mentioned?”, enraged Okonkwo fired again.”
The constitutional lawyer vowed to provoke a authorized motion towards the Governor if he did not tender a public apology to Obi.
“If the Governor doesn’t apologize, I will likely be on his case”, Okonkwo mentioned.
When reminded that the Chief Press Secretary to the governor had later, in a press assertion, claimed that his principal’s phrases had been taken out of context, Okonkwo mentioned the declare was a belated harm management.
“Now, that may let you know how malicious the entire intention is. When the governor was speaking, you heard him use such phrases. He mentioned he (Obi) doesn’t give shish, however he’s giving N15 million.
He mentioned this and that. I wish to let you know that they’ve even added a deceive their misdeed.”
Okonkwo famous that people may differ on points, simply as he had typically disagreed with Obi, however that doesn’t confer on the Governor the proper to infringe on Obi’s basic rights.
“Everyone has ones fashion of doing issues. I’ve my very own fashion. If you happen to disagree with him, as I do at instances, go away him to do his personal factor, his personal means.
He’s entitled to his freedom. They’re basic to him. If you happen to don’t prefer it, go away him.
“So, in the event you don’t like the way in which he does his personal issues, he’s entitled to it. For me, as an example, I love to do my philanthropic issues, largely secret due to my spiritual perception. Nevertheless, a politician could determine to do in any other case. That’s his personal entitlement. And he doesn’t have the proper to threaten his life.
“However to not threaten his life? How will you do this! that I even quarrel with the way in which he (Obi) does his personal issues. However how can he pose a menace to a state?”
Okonkwo, who recalled that Gov. Alia of Benue State had previously made the same menace to Obi, urged the previous Anambra State Governor to cease overlooking the need of difficult the infringement of his rights.
” Obi has to even up his recreation as a result of the Benue State Governor did virtually the identical factor and Obi saved quiet. And now this Governor (Okpebholo has repeated it.”
The authorized knowledgeable additional argued that the governor’s claims that Obi ought to clear with him earlier than visiting Edo State had been baseless, insisting that each Nigerian is constitutionally entitled to go to or reside in any a part of the nation.
“Now they’re saying protocol, protocol. What do you imply by protocol? Do you want permission to go to any state? What protocol is it? Does Obi seem to you as a person that may threaten anyone’s life?
“What I’m saying is that Obi doesn’t pose any menace to anyone’s life. So he couldn’t have breached any protocol.”
When reminded that the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Mr. Jared Tenebe, had made worse remarks about Obi than the Governor, Okonkwo declined to react to Tenebe’s feedback, as doing so can be an indication of endorsement.
“Sorry, I don’t give credence to folks like that. As a result of they’re simply looking for relevance. He’s as inconsequential as his face appears to be like. Please, subsequent query. What am I going to speak about? APC with their failed state and with their unintelligent folks? He’s simply looking for relevance. Please, subsequent query. “
Okonkwo mentioned the unprovoked menace towards Obi was an insult on the whole Igbo race, arguing that the Governor wouldn’t have used such phrases on him, had been Obi to come back from Hausa or Yoruba tribes.
He expressed fury that the identical Governor who raced to Kano to “prostrate earlier than Northern elders” when some alleged Northern hunters had been killed in Edo State not too long ago, had the temerity to threaten an harmless man.
“The Governor wouldn’t have tried this with a pacesetter from Hausa or a pacesetter from Yoruba land. And I imply it. The opposite time Northerners had been killed in Edo, he ran to Kano to prostrate.
“I sense tribalism and and ethnic bigotry. The Governor has proven he’s an Igbo hater. His menace towards Obi was a direct assault towards Ndigbo. He’s petty and largely clever”.
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