{"id":174994,"date":"2024-06-21T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-labour-party-is-secret-society-led-by-bunch-of-jokers-kenneth-okonkwo\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:00:40","slug":"nigeria-labour-party-is-secret-society-led-by-bunch-of-jokers-kenneth-okonkwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-labour-party-is-secret-society-led-by-bunch-of-jokers-kenneth-okonkwo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Labour Party Is Secret Society, Led By Bunch of Jokers &#8211; Kenneth Okonkwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;Let them (Julius Abure and his cohorts) come out and tell me what they did at that convention if it&#8217;s not a secret society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Actor-turned-politician Kenneth Okonkwo has lashed out at the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/labourparty.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Party<\/a><\/strong> (LP) leadership in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Mr Okonkwo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/more-news\/550483-2023-nollywood-actor-kenneth-okonkwo-defects-to-labour-party-backs-peter-obi.html?tztc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defected<\/a><\/strong> to LP on 24 August 2022, one month after resigning from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the party&#8217;s Muslim-Muslim Ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The 55-year-old, at the time, said he joined LP to promote good governance and a new Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">However, during an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406210610.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let them (Julius Abure and his cohorts) come out and tell me what they did at that convention if it&#8217;s not a secret society.&#8221; Actor-turned-politician Kenneth Okonkwo has lashed out at the Labour Party (LP) leadership in a new interview. Mr Okonkwo defected to LP on 24 August 2022, one month after resigning from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,48838,48839,12340,8361,15960,257,4687,393,17670,7024,6860,7120,254],"class_list":["post-174994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bunch","tag-jokers","tag-kenneth","tag-labour","tag-led","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okonkwo","tag-party","tag-secret","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}