Bukola Saraki, the former president of the Senate, recently asserted that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, cannot succeed if elected president without having members of the national assembly. Obi’s spokesperson, Kenneth Okonkwo, has responded to Bukola Saraki.
In an interview on Arise Television on Monday, Saraki said he was worried that if Obi was elected president in 2023, bad things would happen during his time in office.
According to the former lawmaker, if the Labour Party wins the presidential election, things may not go well if there are no candidates to fill the parliamentary seats.
The structures being boasted about by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, according to Okonkwo, who spoke on the same platform on Tuesday, are those of crime, poverty, insecurity, a lack of fuel, and poor leadership.
He said that Obi was moving in to tear down these buildings and boost the country’s exports and productivity.
He declared, “The PDP and APC have structures of crime, structures of corruption, structures of fuel scarcity, structures of poverty, structures of insecurity, and structures of bad leadership.”
“I could go on forever. So you wouldn’t expect me to speak for Obi if he’s a part of that system. He is entering to demolish such structures because of this. Obi is a man who is already accommodating to creatively democratic change.
“There were no members of the House of Assembly when he served in that body.” None. However, he was successful in getting the House of Assembly to approve everything he requested.
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“When he took office as governor, he did not have a single member of the House of Assembly, and this is what Obasanjo would call a track record of ability and performance.”
“What you need to be in control of is not having members in the national assembly, as pleasant and important as that may be.” What you need is political will. What you require are powerful institutions… Obi will act as the leader…
“No national parliament may take action against Obi because he must first engage in misbehavior.” In Anambra State, he behaved properly for eight years. How can he act improperly when elected president if he doesn’t even take the land or pension to which he is entitled? Obi will arrive. Although he will have representatives in the national legislature, we are more interested in a new Nigeria. Saraki hasn’t argued anything.
