Veteran Nollywood actor cum politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has suggested that the single-term presidency proposal of the Labour Party (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is a political strategy to curry favour from the North.

Naijaonpoint reports that Okonkwo stated this on Friday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

According to the thespian, Peter Obi knows that if he does not make the promise, he would lose votes from the northern region of the country during the 2027 election.

Kenneth Okonkwo argued that any party serious about defeating an incumbent must agree that its presidential candidate would serve for one term so that no side will feel cheated.

He said, “So I brought the theory as a way for any opposition party to inspire Nigerians to know that each side will not lose when they make any choice, whether north or south.

“So, it was even Atiku Abubakar that first of all said he was going to do one term, then Peter Obi now keyed into it because he knows that if he, as a younger person, does not make that promise, he loses the entire North.

“So it’s purely a political strategy to say, ‘Look, I am not going to cut the eight years. I’m not going to shortchange you. So if I am elected, I will just do only four years to complete the eight years of the South.’ So that’s just the whole idea about it.”