Okotie faults campaign promises of presidential candidates

Interim government campaigner Rev Chris Okotie has picked holes in the campaign promises of leading presidential candidates for the 2023 polls.

He was reacting to the release of the manifestos of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Speaking as a guest on Jordan FM radio programme, Feedback in Lagos recently, the cleric said the current constitution would not make it possible for any presidential candidate to fulfill his campaign promises because it contains several inherent contradictions.

Okotie,in apparent reference to the radio interview with host, Charles Ideho, wrote on his Facebook page: ‘All the major Presidential flag bearers are talking about modality -how they would do what – none is addressing conditionality,that is, the constitution,true federalism, resource control,as the primary solution to the Nigerian quandary’.

He explained: “Nigeria’s governmental incapacity is not modalities (about requisite knowledge and procedure) but conditionalities (inherent conditional obstructions).”

Okotie buttressed his argument with the metaphor of a pilot who wouldn’t fly his plane under inclement weather because it’s suicidal to do so; an apparent reference to modality.

The Reverend declared that to attempt to base any actualisation of political promises on the present dysfunctional constitution is a journey in futility.

He concluded that the only way out is to adopt his brand of restructuring based on Aboriginal Democracy, which would produce an acceptable constitution that would meet the yearnings of the people.