A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Okonkwo has accused President Bola Tinubu of lack of accountability towards Nigerians.
He stated that for 19 months Tinubu has failed to explain to Nigerians what he has been doing in power.
Okonkwo shared his reservation during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday.
Analysing the President first media chat, he argued that Tinubu has been doing the wrong thing from the first day he was sworn in.
According to him, democracy is not about talking to the people but about the leaders being interrogated by the people.
“It’s not about you talking to the people but about you being interrogated by the people. The Constitution says the participation of the people in their government shall be ensured. The people participate through their representatives, both from the media, both from any policy you want to do, has to be interrogated by the people.
“Democracy is not just about doing what is good for the people. It is also about doing what the people want,” he said.
Speaking on the stampedes in the country, Okonkwo argued that the Catholic church has been distributing food palliatives during Yuletide without recording any stampede.
He stressed that the hardship in the land made unimaginable number of people to go for the food distribution event.
He added that the people became hopeless on seeing the mammoth crowd, which made them to struggle by all means to be beneficiaries of the gesture.
“Look at what happened in Abuja in the Catholic ministry. They’ve been doing that for decades. They’ve been doing that for years. Why is this year’s own different? It is different because people have become desperately hungry.
“But because they were desperate, they did not wish to ever leave there without having anything, having seen that more people came. They knew that some people will leave there without anything, so they had to now struggle to make sure that they are part of the beneficiaries. That is a sign of a filled state. Struggling and dying for the most basic necessity of life, which is food,” he lamented.
