Going Beyond 'Living in Bondage': Onoh berates Okonkwo for his Tinubu comments

All Progressives Congress, APC South East spokesperson, presidential candidate Dr Josef Onoh has ridiculed Nollywood actor and Labor stalwart, Mr Kenneth Okonkwo for his recent 'first' on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Okonkwo had among other things asked people not to vote for Tinubu, alleging that the APC presidential candidate was inconsistent in his statements and had blasphemed both the Bible and the Quran at different times.

But in a hilarious response to Okonkwo, Onoh asked the actor to grow beyond his first film role in 1991's 'Living in Bondage' where he pitifully told his friend Paulo that he would would have explained things well about the demands of ritual money before his initiation.

Onoh said that an actor remains one, all the more so when Okonkwo is a stereotypical flat character, whose inflexibility gradually turns him into a demagogue, and irretrievably into his abyss.

He asked Okonkwo to do well and grow up and change his inconsistencies instead of jumping from one political party to another and leaving all his ambitions inconclusive.

He cited Okonkwo's 2019 stint in the APC where he claimed he was vying for the governorship of Enugu state but ended up only launching verbal missiles, not couldn't afford to buy nomination forms and made an anti-climax performance.

Onoh told him that a good actor leaves the stage when the ovation is loudest, suggesting that Okonkwo go back to the seers he was so used to in his movies and ask them for divination on his star, at the instead of running around the circles of different professions.

Onoh said, "The character, Kenneth Okonkwwo, while auditioning as an actor, confused the basic fundamentals of politics to represent acting. His audition for politics started in 2014 and since then he has auditioned for different political parties such as the PDP, APC and now the Labor Party and in all these auditions he has flaunted his poor stage performances.

"While Asiwaju is busy galvanizing votes, artists such as actor Kenneth Okonkwo have been conducting auditions for another movie role, but politics is not a movie role. His assertion according to which Asiwaju is becoming a demigod is because Asiwaju himself spends time soliciting votes and the number of votes he has garnered including his expanding supporters in the southeast are this which clouded the vision of actor Kenneth Okonkwo.

“While Asiwaju is still testing the microphone, Okonkwo is still trying to study his scripts. With our 40 million registered members, 22 sitting governors and an absolute majority in the National Assembly, our candidate ranks as the best governor of the past 23 years. We can only wish Okonkwo well, but we must understand that Asiwaju's presidential campaign is not a movie audition and is for serious people.

"Kenneth Okonkwo should remember his famous line in Living in Bondage where he said, 'Paulo, you're my fry and you haven't explained things to me well', that's why I'm explaining to him now well, that Asiwaju in February 2023 will become the next President of Nigeria and when that time comes, I wouldn't want Andy to come and tell me that I didn't explain this thing to him well."