Kenneth Okonkwo, a spokesman for the Labour Party’s presidential campaign committee in the last election, asserted that the executive and the 10th National Assembly do not have separate powers.
In an interview with AIT, Okonkwo emphasised that the 10th assembly is worse than the 9th assembly, calling it a duplicate of the executive.
He believed that the opposition parties were preoccupied with scheming to get seats in the NASS while disregarding the purported misuse of authority by the executive.
The seasoned actor who is now a politician claimed that President Bola Tinubu’s statement on May 29, 2023, to remove the fuel subsidy was an abuse of authority, emphasising that a law already in place prohibited such an action.
“I think the opposition has failed and failed horribly in Nigeria,” he declared. Their downfall began on May 29, 2023.
“A president abused his position of authority by eliminating fuel subsidies in his inaugural address.
“An existing law, the PIA, states that the subsidy is only allowed to continue through the end of June. It is a legal requirement. The president’s role is to carry out, oversee, and enforce the legislation.
“The opposition ought to have cried out right away. There is no dictatorship here. It was not your election to enforce your will.
There is already a law in place. You are not even allowed to bring it up. They were preoccupied with their battle for seats in the National Assembly. The same individual then emerged and selected a leader on your behalf.
And not one of them was able to yell. The National Assembly is the executive branch’s photocopy today. We have a photocopy now, but we used to joke that Senator Lawan was a rubber stamp.
