Nollywood icon and lawyer, Kenneth Okonkwo over the weekend declared his intention to contest the 2019 governorship elections in Enugu State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Okonkwo made his ambition public at an enlarged State Executive Committee (SEC) meeting of the APC where the party also passed a vote of confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari and Ben Nwoye, the state chairman of the party.

Addressing delegates at the meeting, Okonkwo said his candidature emanated from the pressures from his people in his hometown of Nsukka whom he said were yet to benefit from the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi after almost four years in office.

Okonkwo, who hit the movies limelight after starring as ‘Andy Okeke’ in the Igbo thriller ‘Living in Bondage’ in 1992 said it had become incumbent on him to heed the call of his people since Governor Ugwuanyi had failed to execute any legacy project in Nsukka.

He said if given the mandate, he would stay only one term in office to complete the eight years of Nsukka zone under Enugu North Senatorial District in the spirit of triangular equilibrium which guaranteed equity in the state.

“When I wanted to go into acting in the early 90s, some people came to me and asked why I wanted to go into acting, which was not paying, with my sound educational background and certificate. I went into acting and it turned around. I will do the same in Enugu, if elected governor,” Okonkwo said.