Dr. Doyin Okupe, former spokesperson to former
Nigerian president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan diagnosed three errors his boss and
their political party made before the 2015 election which made them loose the
election. He said:
The
impression created in the media recently that the candidacy of Goodluck
Jonathan was an error is itself a grand fallacy which totally undermined the
whole truth about the sanctity and correctness of the wisdom of the PDP
National Executive committee which made and ratified that decision.
If any error was made it was
firstly the failure of the PDP administration to sack the unfair and
compromised electoral Officer who was allowed to conduct the election in spite
of his obvious and profuse partisanship.
The second error was the
inexplicable acquiescence of the PDP government to the use of the infamous Card
Reader which was skilfully manipulated to the disadvantage of the PDP
presidential candidate.
The third error of the PDP was to
have fielded a good, God fearing and patriotic man who in spite of his enormous
power, the avalanche of deployable arsenal of war at his disposal, transformed
himself to be the victim and refused to fight so that his countrymen may live
and his nation survive. The situation in Burundi today is highly instructive.
Certainly history will treat
Goodluck Jonathan as one of the greatest heroes of this generation of African
Leaders.
Definitely NOT an Error by any
stretch of imagination.
I speak today not as a spokesman
for President Jonathan, an episode and a proud chapter of my life which has
since come to a close but rather I speak as a student of History and a
veritable stakeholder in the Nigerian project.
With regards to the first and second errors, and
also as a student of history, I can only muse aloud that, after 16 years of the
PDP plague which took different forms and shapes including terrorism, satanism
and corruption, Okupe has the guts to accuse Professor Attahiru Jega of “obvious
and profuse partisanship” and talk about “manipulation.” For Chrst’s
sake, how long will it take Doyin Okupe to shut up?
I think the greatest mistake former president
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made as a politician was to belong to a satanic cult
that paraded itself as the largest political party in Africa. If PDP was that
large, it then goes to show the kind of political dragon that was at work
against Nigeria and her teeming population.
The second mistake of Goodluck Jonathan was to
have appointed lame ducks into his cabinet and as his spokespersons. PDP, in
concert with these lame ducks, built a bed for and led Goodluck Jonathan to
sleep on “a mattress of maggots” and covered him with “a
blanket of worms”. In this way they cut Jonathan off from the people
and created him into a lonely prisoner in Aso Rock, a mongrel and a total
stranger to the needs and aspirations of his fellow citizens.
Doyin Okupe pontificated at the rituals and
ceremonies that canonized the impunity that characterized the PDP administration
in Nigeria.
To have allowed,
not just Doyin Okupe, but all the doyin okupes be part of his cabinet and to
speak for him is one fundamental error that endangered his integrity and
undermined the chances, if any, he had with the 2015 election.
And his refusal to sack, not the highly efficient
and focused electoral umpire Professor Attahiru Jega, but Dr. Doyin (or ducking)
Okupe when it became obviously clear to him that he had lived for too long,
perhaps unconsciously, in Alice’s Wonderland did much to alienate Jonathan
further from whatever aspirations he had with regards to Nigeria’s 2015 leadership
post.
But Jonathan’s faith antecedents even as a prisoner
in Aso Rock found a strong resonance in the pitiable and helpless condition of
the Nigeria people as community threatened by terrorism and electoral violence
when, prior to the 2015 election, he said that his “ambition was not worth a single
drop of the blood of any Nigeria”. This statement, which cut off the option of
violence, cost PDP the 2015 election. But Goodluck Ebele Jonathan won the
election with the Nigerian people.
The credentials of post electoral Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
as a democrat, a statesman, a patriot and a leader do not need any advertiser –
what more of the type of Doyin Okupes of Nigeria.
Simply put, Jonathan was (and still is) a misfit in PDP. PDP is afraid of men and women who have the fear of God in them.
The
element of the fear of God in Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the manifest regret of
Doyin Okupe. PDP’s regrets are Jonathan’s victory – no matter how much PDP
tries to disassociate itself from Okupe’s sorrows and lamentations.
Instructively, God used Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
to infiltrate PDP and in this way turned the counsel of Ahitophel into a ruse.
I therefore cease this opportunity to welcome
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan back to the Davidic camp and invite him to take his
seat in the community of the chosen people as the Chairman of Board of Trustees
of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
And now that the elections have come and gone;
now that the long awaited ministerial list had come out; and now that it has
become necessary for all Igbos to take a stand as a people, we plead with all
South East and South South states to hasten this “Change Over” as a way of
witnessing live, the “CHANGE” we all voted for.
This “CHANGE OVER” exercise, nonetheless, does
not and must not be allowed to endanger the work of the Electoral Tribunals
going on in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia State respectively.
For evidence of the authenticity of the necessity
of this “CHANGE OVER”, please visit and carefully underline the raw facts the
links below hold: