2023: Keyamo Speaks From Level Of Ignorance, Reversed Psychology – Senator Ekenyong

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….Says Atiku was key to major economic reforms of OBJ administration

Senator Chris Ekpenyong representing Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has taken the Spokesman to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Festus Keyamo to the cleaners, saying that he is just blabbing and speaking on level of ignorance with regards to the constitutional role of a Vice President, who is the head of the economic team of the administration.

Ekpenyong pointedly said that it was wrong for the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, SAN, to say that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lacks the experience to compete with Tinubu of the APC.


Ekpenyong specifically said that he expected Keyamo, a Senior lawyer and a serving minister to understand the role and functions of the office of the Vice President better than he attempted to knock it off, noting that it clearly showed a lack of understanding of how governance is operated.

The lawmaker therefore counseled Keyamo to focus on the job he has been assigned to do even as he said that it is he is aware that it is very difficult to sell a bad product, especially in the 21st century.

The former deputy governor also said that Keyamo should realize that the strategy of 2015 propaganda cannot work in 2023 thus should stop applying the use reverse psychology without the realization that Nigerians are wiser now and well informed.

Ekenyong, who stated these while reacting to Keyamo’s utterances on television, said that a vice president performs delegated executive powers assigned to him, stressing that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the head of National Executive Council performed constitutionally backed functions that resulted in key economic reforms of the Obasanjo administration.

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He further said; “Section 153(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria gives constitutional backing to the National Economic Council, which is chaired by the Vice President as the head of the economic council. And the council has the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the Central Bank Governor and all the 36 state governors as its members.

“The economic council is mandated to advise the President on economic issues and measures necessary for the coordination of the economic programmes of the various governments of the federation.

“As a stakeholder and former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State who had participated in the Federal Executive Council meetings and most times chaired by the then Vice President Atiku Abubakar, it is quite pathetic to listen to Festus Keyamo, SAN, who came boldly on national television to say that the vice president of a nation doesn’t have the executive experience to be president.

“How can Festus Keyamo say that a person that has coordinated the entire executive arm of the federation apart from the President doesn’t have executive experience? In what other form can someone gain executive experience?

“It is so unfair for Mr Keyamo to underrate the office of the Vice President of Nigeria. What he’s trying to say is that his current boss, the current Vice President, is shallow in experience as Vice President.

“His statements were disappointing. He even went as far as to say that nobody in this country has more public experience than Asiwaju, meaning even the current President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari who appointed him doesn’t have the experience Asiwaju has. “Asiwaju has only been a Senator and governor for God’s sake. Some people have been everything in this country.

“Atiku as Vice President didn’t only display unmatched leadership capacity, he understood what being a leader is, which is being a good team player.

“Atiku started by assembling the best economic team that ensured Nigeria’s debt was cancelled. The economic team privatized the telecom sector and the cement industry, increased our GDP and created jobs for Nigerians

“The economic council, which he chaired, introduced GSM into Nigeria. The naira was stabilized. Atiku pushed for the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“Even in his private life, he founded the largest oil and gas, ports logistics service in Africa that has created jobs and sustained families all over Nigeria. He is a man that thinks of Nigeria and not himself or his state alone. How do you say such a man doesn’t have the experience to lead Nigeria? Atiku’s legacies can be seen and the impact is still being felt many years after leaving office.

…Sourced from Vanguard newspapers

 

 

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