Muslims are the most suffering despite Tinubu’s Muslim/Muslim ticket - Okonkwo

Kenneth Okonkwo, lawyer and spokesperson for the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, is of the belief that the people who are mostly suffering in Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu’s government are Muslims.

He questioned the benefits of the Muslim/Muslim tickets, as he described the move as a political strategy and not a religious strategy.

Okonkwo called their move a failure although they won the presidential election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission on March 1, 2023.

Having claimed to have been present all through the Appeal Court hearing said he disagreed with the ruling as the court only gave them 21 days to produce all their evidence, which could not have been possible.

Here is what he said in an interview with Seun Okinbaloye, host of the Mic On Podcast;

“The people that are suffering most in this government are Muslims. What has the Muslim/Muslim ticket benefitted them? It was a political strategy; it was not a religious strategy.

Seun Okinabloye: But it worked

Kenneth Okonkwo: It failed.

Seun Okinbaloye; They won the election

Kenneth Okonkwo: Through technical glitch. What I mean by that, is that technical glitch, glitched the original election. By 4:30am when people were asleep, they gave us results that emanated from technical glitch. They failed.

Seun Okinbaloye: There are those who believe that your position as the one who won the election was wrong, legally and procedurally. INEC declared the person who won the election, the court at two different occasions declared that Bola Tinubu and the APC won the election. But you don’t believe it.

Kenneth Okonkwo: Right, I was in the Court of Appeal. The first order we asked the court of appeal to give to us was an order INEC should allow us inspect the BIVAS, three orders, INEC obeyed none of it. Yet INEC went to the same court and told the court to give them orders to reconfigure the BIVAS before we inspected it and the court did nothing.

And then when we proceeded in the hearing of the case, the court now said we have 21 days to produce every piece of evidence which INEC refused to give us. Then they said subpoena witnesses cannot come to give evidence after 21 days. 176,000 polling units, they said we should prove it, polling unit by polling unit.

And you have three weeks.

Seun Okinbaloye: Is that not the position of the law?

Kenneth Okonkwo: I disagreed with them because from the law I read, it couldn’t have been the position.”

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