Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo
has stated that the worst of President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight year in office,
if he gets a second term, would be better than the past 16 years the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, had control of power.
Okonkwo also said he owed no one
any apology for supporting President Buhari.
The actor turned politician
recently came under fire after he stated that people of the South Eastern part
of Nigeria will be in the wilderness if they fail to vote for Buhari in 2019.
Reacting to the heavy backlash he
got, Kenneth Okonkwo, via an Instagram post on Friday, stated that he owed no
one any apology for his statement.
His words: “My attention has been
drawn to some negative comments and curses poured out against my person by some
ignorant and satanically motivated persons because of my preference of
President Muhammadu Buhari as President of this country for his incorruptible
and firm character against enemies of Nigeria.
“I have been laughing at their
ignorance and wickedness.
“First, these men have not
offered any alternative party or Presidential aspirants to challenge Buhari or
be compared with him.
“Second, they claim they are
Igbos but forgot that in Igboland, it is a cardinal principle and custom that
you must respect someone’s personal opinion and must not curse the person, if
what the person simply did was to express his opinion and nothing more, “uche
onye adighi ya njo”.
“Even if a person says anything
you don’t like, provided he did not curse you, you are permitted to throw away
his words but restrained by custom and tradition not to do anything to him.
“Third, God himself created man a
free moral agent to hold his thoughts and express his opinions as he wishes. He
did not even compel man to worship Him.
“So these army of ignorant and
wicked men are simply trying to rudely and crudely interfere with my traditional,
constitutional and religious rights to freely express myself and hold an
opinion, belief and thought as I so wish.
“Let me reiterate that I am a
follower of President Buhari and believe in his integrity and good intentions
to better the lots of Nigerians and that of Ndigbo and I have no apologies for
this. Whoever disagrees with me should produce his own strong reasons and
better alternatives.
“Just to remind you but a few.
Before Buhari came in, terrorists bombed to pieces, 88 persons at Nyanya in
Abuja, bombed the United Nations Building in Abuja, bombed Banex Plaza and even
the police headquarters in Abuja killing uncountable number of persons. I don’t
need to mention the entire North East that was overun by terrorists with
thousands of people beheaded and the video images sent on internet for
everybody to see. The terrorists were everywhere and have started forming cells
in Lagos and Enugu.
“This Government came and
destroyed them across the country. Only their remnants now are going about carrying
out criminal activities and you are telling me security is not better now. Our
soldiers and officers were sent to fight these terrorists without weapons. They
were dying like chicken and when they complained about lack of weapons, they
were sentenced to death for mutiny.
“No apologies for supporting
Buhari. I respect your views. I not only support him, I pray for him.
“You know the truth, the worst of
Buhari in 8 years will be better than the best of PDP in 16 years.
“PDP had 16 years with oil prices
very high in-between yet they left us without light (power), without water,
without roads, without security, without paying even salaries, indeed without
anything.
“Whatever is happening today has
its root from that regime. This administration came with bail out for states to
pay salaries with the price of oil falling drastically. Tackled security and
all that and somebody is telling me I should reconsider the past leaders that
brought us into this mess. God forbid.”
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