Christian Aburime, the Press Secretary to Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, has taken Kenneth Okonkwo, one of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign spokesmen to the cleaners for his unguarded, uncultured vituperative diatribe against the late mother and the person of Chukwuma Charles Soludo, a globally reputed Professor of Economics and the current Solution Governor of the state.
In a loaded release Saturday evening, Aburime Kenneth Okonkwo as a total disgrace to the campaign team and the entire Igbo race, over what he described as “an “unwarranted insult against the Governor and his mother, popularly known as Mrs Mgbafor”.”
Okonkwo, a Nollywood actor, had, earlier on Saturday, during an interview on Politics Today on Channels Television, interpreted Soludo’s mother’s name to mean gossip; described her as a village gossip, and also described Soludo himself as a proud son of local gossip, which, he said, is the reason behind the Governor’s sobriquet, “Charlie Nwa Mgbafor”.
Aburime, while reacting to the outburst, said Okonkwo did not only sound cocky and insolent but had also denigrated the office of the governor, and insulted a woman old enough to be his mother if she were to be alive, just to seek cheap popularity.
While noting that Governor Soludo and Mr Peter Obi (Okonkwo’s principal) do not have any personal issues to have necessitated such Okonkwo’s unguided utterances in purported defence of his principal; Aburime tutored that the Nollywood actor “should be called to order and brought back to his senses, as he sounded like one who is morally bankrupt.”
He said, “I want to say that Okonkwo’s is a disgrace to spokesmanship, and I sympathise with the Labour Party which left professional image makers in the country and found a local movie actor as a suitable candidate.
“The party should have known that presidential campaign spokesmanship is not a Nollywood role, and they should have done a good background check to ensure that people who speak for them are not morally bankrupt.
“It is sad that Okonkwo does not know that Mgbafor is the name given to a girl born on Afọr Market Day in Igbo land. Why would he insult and disgrace the entire Igbo race by trying to mislead the world that the names that promote their cultural identity mean gossip?
