A legend of the Nollywood and a Legal practitioner, Kenneth Okonkwo Okonkwo, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot be a judge over his actions regarding claims about his government’s performance so far.
Kenneth Okonkwo, a former spokesperson for Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, who was reacting to President Tinubu’s comments during his maiden media chat noted that the president cannot objectively rate himself.
“The worst statement the president made during his first Presidential Media Chat is scoring himself ‘excellent’,” the legal practitioner said, claiming Tinubu has done the “worst job by any president since i
Kenneth Okonkwo, a former spokesperson for Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, who was a guest on Channels Television morning programme , Sunrise Daily this Tuesday claimed that the President has done the “worst job by any president since independence”.
While lamenting the state of affairs in the country, the former chieftain of the Labour party attributed the recent spate of stampedes in the country to desperation and hunger.
“This president shifted all the responsibility to the organizers, people who wanted to help people who are hungry. Let me tell you: this stampede happened in the east. It happened in the west. It happened in the north. That means it’s now a general thing that Nigerians from all sectors are hungry and things are hard.
“They did not die in stampedes because they were poor. Poverty exists in every country. They died in a stampede because they were desperately hungry. In other words, they know that if they don’t have that food, they don’t even have anything to fall back in their house, and that is why they had to struggle for N5,000 and grains of rice, the outspoken politician stated.
He further pointed to recurring national grid failures and escalating insecurity as evidence of the conspicuous shortcomings of the present administration, alleging that about 2,496 persons have been murdered in the last three months.
“Between October, for a president priding himself that security has improved, more than 2,496 people have been murdered, and many have been kidnapped. This is the president with the most expensive cars in the history of the country,” Okonkwo claimed.
Recall, days after the stampedes, President Tinubu in a media chat rated his government well, defending his administration’s policies including the removal of fuel subsidy, insisting they were necessary steps to getting Nigeria working.
The President had also highlighted progress in security and vowed to reduce inflation, currently at 34%, to 10% by 2025.
“We are focused; we’ll maintain focus. Let’s believe in ourselves and our country. Tomorrow will bring a glorious dawn,” President Tinubu pleaded.
