Barrister Keneth Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor and spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, has called for President Tinubu to emulate former UK Prime Minister, Lizz Truss and resign as the president of Nigeria over his poor performance in office.
This he disclosed during an exclusive interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90Minutes Africa on Sunday, 10, March maintained that the government should consider throwing in the towel because they have failed.
This is even as Okonkwo insisted that the removal of fuel subsidy and floating of the naira without adequate cushioning measures have thrown Nigerians into untold poverty.
In his words: “The former UK PM genuinely thought that her policies would be beneficial to the people, and when it didn’t work out that way, she threw in the towel after just 45 days in office.
“This government should consider throwing in the towel because they have failed. The only thing they can achieve is a further failure, and the people would become more hungry, more radical, more restless, and more revolutionary.”
“A lot of Nigerians have now resorted to looting warehouses and food trucks after they have exhausted their savings on fuel,” he reiterated.
“You have a government that is having a monopoly of force and yet cannot use that monopoly of force to defend the people. So what it means is that you’re tying the hands of the people on their backs and just allowing the bandits and terrorists to be hacking down and taking advantage of innocent people.
“And when they take them in, you would not bring money to get them out, rather you would start citing laws that it is illegal to pay money to bandits, and the families of the victims would be compelled, in this harsh economic atmosphere, to still run around to raise money to bring out their people.
“In these modern times, Nigerians are being bought and sold like slaves while they are burrowing in the forest like animals, and some people are still purporting to be in charge of the government.
“I’m sorry to say, but this is the greatest display of clownishness in power because you are seeing your people being dehumanized, degraded, and there is nothing you are doing about it,” the media personality posited.
“You judge a man by his antecedents,” the actor said concerning Peter Obi. “Anambra was coming last in WAEC, but within two years of Peter Obi’s government, they started coming first.
“Before Peter Obi came in as governor, kidnappers were building their tents in Anambra State. But when he came, all the kidnappers, including Evans, ran away. Guess where Evans found refuge, in the state of the incumbent president! He doesn’t just know anything about security.
“Evans, who ran away from Anambra because of Obi’s security arrangement, lived among the elites in Lagos. Peter Obi is incomparable to any politician in Nigeria. I have always said it that Peter Obi is not an alternative option. He is the only option.”
“In fact, if it were in countries where they follow opinion polls, Soludo would not even bother to contest because he will just disgrace himself,” the actor said.
Okonkwo went ahead to reply when asked whether his principal, Mr. Peter Obi, could have done anything differently if he had won the presidential election that, Obi’s antecedents are clear and that it is insulting to compare him to the crop of leaders running the country.
Also he commended Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, whom he said is doing very well and that such works should be replicated in all the states of the southeast.
The veteran actor added also that the Labour Party is set to take over Anambra State as “99 out of every 100 people in Anambra State” don’t want Governor Soludo to have a second term.
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