Kenneth Okonkwo Explodes: “Any Igbo Supporting Tinubu Is an Enemy of the Southeast”

Veteran Nollywood actor and legal practitioner, Kenneth Okonkwo, has stirred political waters with a fiery condemnation of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, accusing the president of deliberately sidelining the Southeast and fueling ethnic and religious exclusion.

In a no-holds-barred interview on Symfoni TV, Okonkwo, who is also a politician, lambasted Igbos supporting Tinubu, branding them “enemies of their people.”

Tinubu’s Alleged Remarks Spark Outrage

Okonkwo recalled what he described as President Tinubu’s post-election comments that betrayed hostility toward the Igbo community.

“After the election, he said, ‘These people (Igbos) came to Lagos when they were 12 years, and they didn’t support us,’” Okonkwo claimed. “So he had the mind to emasculate and finish the Southeast.”

The actor insisted that this alleged rhetoric revealed deep-seated resentment, which has translated into the region’s political and infrastructural neglect under the current administration.

Muslim-Muslim Ticket ‘A Slap on the Southeast’

Okonkwo further argued that Tinubu’s controversial choice of a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket was a calculated move to alienate the Southeast, which is overwhelmingly Christian.

“The Southeast is 99.9% Christian,” he emphasized. “Whoever chooses a Muslim-Muslim ticket does not have any intention of including the Southeast in governance.”

The outspoken actor-politician reserved his harshest words for Southeast indigenes who openly support the president.

“That is why I’m saying anybody from the Southeast that is supporting Tinubu is an enemy. You are not a Southeast indigene,” he declared.

For him, such loyalty to Tinubu is nothing short of betrayal. “Politics is about survival. Whoever is trying to finish your people, and you’re supporting that person, you are complicit,” Okonkwo thundered.

Okonkwo rounded off his blistering critique with an accusation that the Tinubu government has systematically locked out the Southeast, both politically and religiously.

“Ethnically, religiously, Tinubu has excluded us from the scheme of things,” he said, describing the administration as one that thrives on exclusion rather than inclusion.