Laolu Akande, a former aide to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has condemned United States President Donald Trump over his executive order stopping birthright citizenship.
The president within hours after his inauguration announced that he has signed an executive order stopping citizenship for illegal immigrants’ children.
In his view, Akande said that he is not concerned about other agenda of Trump to make America great again. But he is worried about the citizenship issue.
“Well, the concern for me is not about the broad agenda of Mr Trump to make America great again, or his intentions and plans to be insular. I don’t have any problem with that,” Laolu said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
He added that he has problem with the ban on citizenship rights.
“What I have a problem with is the implications of his style of politics, and the language of his politics. For instance, he wants to ban the citizenship rights of people who are born in America.
“Now that’s an overreach. You could say that that doesn’t affect Nigeria but it does affect Nigeria because you know there are a lot of Nigerians who are caught in that web.”
“So, this attempt by Mr Donald Trump, even going to the point that he’s overreaching himself, goes against the grain of the founding fathers and the thoughts that went to the very idea of America where everybody can come in; the best of the world gather there.”
He said, “It is a poor reflection on what many of us, many people believe America stands for. He’s so desperate about it that he’s even issuing an executive order to trounce the Constitution. I don’t know how he intends to survive.”
The former presidential spokesman said the ban affects the reputation of the US.
“So, my concern is not so much that he is going to compel people to do their stuff, solve their problems. No, it is about what might happen to the reputation of America, what might happen to the image of America,” he said.
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