On The Couch With Falz and Laila has seen rapper Falz and broadcast journalist Laila Johnson-Salami interviewing presidential candidates and affording Nigerians an opportunity to get to know the crop of people whose intention it is to lead the country.
There have been disastrous interviews, in the likes of Olasubomi Okeowo, whose shocking lack of depth and required knowledge for various topical issues made the video of his interview go viral.
Public speaker, Fela Durotoye has also sat on the couch with the hosts, and most recently, former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke has also taken to the couch to air his views on how he intends to lead the country.
“I think we are an under-performing and under-achieving nation and the basis of our problem is poor leadership,” Duke says of the country whose mantle of leadership he aspires to take over in 2019.
He talked about his policies on a wide range of issues including education, security and the police, the remuneration and pensions of public office holders, and electricity.
On the issue of the highly contentious special anti robbery squad (SARS) and if he would scrap the agency, the presidential aspirant said categorially, “Of course I would. Because I do not subscribe to the force where people carry arms and they’re not in uniform.”
Donald Duke went on to bring up the issue of LGBT rights in Nigeria.
“I don’t understand the emotional feelings a gay person would have toward someone of their sexuality,” he stated to an unasked question. “I don’t understand it. But I would not criminalise them. I would ensure that they have the protection of the law.
“But if they want to exhibit their sexuality,” he went on, “then that’s an affront on the current norms of society.”
“How would you define exhibiting their sexuality?” Falz cut in to ask.
And Duke answered with the description of his travel to the States, where he observed two men kissing at the airport.
“Can you have a gay person in your cabinet?” Laila asked.
“His sexuality is private to him,” the former governor answered. “I don’t want to know if he’s gay. It’s not my business. My business is if he can perform the assignment that he’s been assigned.”
Watch video below for the section of his interview that handled the issue of the Nigerian LGBT
Source: News Agencies
