Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nollywood entertainer and politician, impacted President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday address to Nigerians about the #EndBadGovernance cross country protests, calling it exhausting and irritating.
Review that President Tinubu tended to Nigerians on Sunday due to cross-country protests, rising food costs, and monetary difficulties.
In any case, Okonkwo, a representative for the Labour Party, expressed that it would have been ideal if the President had not conveyed such a statement, which he accepts is ‘bad’.
He likewise requested that Tinubu fire his media guides for releasing his stamentcdaily before it was communicated from one side of the country to the other.
“The people are protesting for hunger and hardship, deprivation and degradation. And the president was compelled to speak,” Okonkwo said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday.
He added: “I wish they did not compel him. If I were a media aide, I would have preferred there was no speech at all because bad speech is worse than no speech at all.
“In addition to the speech being empty and very annoying, it was even leaked before the day.”
Okonkwo asserted that President Tinubu had neglected to meet any of the demonstrators’ requests.
He expressed that the President should have worked on his bureau and checked on his decision to buy another private jet.
Okonkwo said that instead of eliminating the petrol subsidy and replacing it with ineffective palliatives, the government should reintroduce subsidies on petrol and electricity tariffs since he feels that “subsidy itself is a palliative.”
He proceeded to say that the ongoing government has brought down Nigerians’ standard of living and ought to rather zero in on expanding efficiency by establishing a great business environment.
Besides Okonkwo, huge characters like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana (SAN), and political associations like the (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have also opposed the President’s address.
