A former presidential media aide, Laolu Akande, has criticised the executive order issued by US President Donald Trump, which bans birthright citizenship.

According to Akande, the move, which Trump made on his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, will negatively affect the country.

He made this known on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

“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,” he said. “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.”

He said the order is in contrast with the country’s Constitution and goes against the founding fathers’ vision for the U.S.

“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 into 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 trample on the Constitution. I don’t know how he intends to survive.”

He added that the ban will affect the reputation of the U.S.

“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.