Nollywood actor and politician Kenneth Okonkwo has responded sharply to fellow actor Okey Bakassi’s remarks about Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
Okey Bakassi recently questioned whether Obi had the capacity to defend the votes of Nigerians in a video shared online. He asked, “What I want to ask is, Nigerians are galvanised to vote for you. Do you have the capacity to defend our votes?”
In response, Kenneth Okonkwo took to Instagram to criticize Okey, accusing him of hypocrisy and ridiculing his career.
Okonkwo said, “If this hypocrite believed PO had the capacity to defend our votes, why ask him? No wonder he was hiding under his mother’s bed during the campaign while we were risking our lives fighting for the votes, which were later on not defended.”
He further added, “First of all, in all his movie life, I am not aware of any movie where he played the lead role that ever made a hit. It’s not unusual for failures to try to get traffic in their interviews by twisting facts about notable names. Little minds discuss people, and they do it dishonestly.”
Okonkwo concluded by saying, “I don’t care what hypocrites and opportunists like Okey Bakassi say. Pretenders and sycophants say and do the worst at the back.”
