A former spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council in 2023, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said that President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast to Nigerians on the #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests was bland and uninspiring.
Okonkwo made this known to newsmen this Tuesday, saying he believes the president was compelled to speak.
Okonkwo says that the government should return the subsidies on petrol and electricity tariff instead of replacing petrol subsidy removal with palliatives, saying that “subsidy itself is a palliative”.
He says the President should have reduced the size of his cabinet and reversed the decision to buy him a new presidential jet.
Okonkwo says that protest is necessary in a democracy. However, he condemned violent actions by a few persons during the protests.