Presidency In Fresh Offensive Against Amaechi, Five Northern Govs



on August 18, 2013

The Presidency has launched a new offensive against the five northern governors who had embarked on a self-sponsored ‘save democracy’ campaign saying there motive was borne out of selfishness and a desperate attempt to block President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who made this know yesterday on ‘Guest of the Week’, a programme by Kaduna based private radio station, Liberty Radio, said the visits by Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa State), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) to some past leaders ostensibly to defuse the tension created by the crisis in Rivers State, were nothing more than a smokescreen to hide their true intention.

Okupe said while President Jonathan has not revealed his 2015 ambition to anyone, nobody could stop him from his constitutional right to contest the presidential elections if he is interested.

According to him, “Jonathan has not told me and has not told anybody that he wants to run again. But all this heat that is in the country is because of the fear that he would run. But normally nobody should stop anybody from exercising the right that is guaranteed under the constitution.

“If Jonathan wants to contest and you are not happy about it, go to the poll and defeat him….Nigerians must wake up. What is four years in the life of a country? Is it worth burning a country? Is it worth destroying our democracy?”

On the visits by the five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to some former leaders, Okupe said: “you heard about five governors who said they were motivated to go round the whole country because of Rivers crisis. Is that not a national joke? It is like watching Africa Magic.

“What is the crisis in Rivers? Who is Amaechi and what is the issue that the whole country is being disturbed because of something that happened at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

“What is Nigeria Governors’ Forum to the destiny of this country? What has it got to do with us? The Rivers crisis is something that people just latch unto to fan the embers of this anti- Jonathan emotion and to continue to promote hatred against Goodluck Jonathan.

“And of course, Amaechi is a willing tool, very rich and is very useful to the opposition. What you are seeing is an over- dramatisation of the preparations for 2015. Period.

“These governors that were so motivated, so passionately concerned about the ultimate destiny of Nigeria, were not motivated when the Boko Haram crises were raging in the north to go round the north and plead on how to solve the problem.

“They were not concerned enough for the thousands of people that were being bombed, killed in their mosques and churches in their domains, under their nose. I feel like crying, people are opening their doors to hypocrites.

“Let them leave the Rivers State police commissioner alone. I don’t know how people got my number. I have text messages from ordinary people who are not politicians, people whose families have suffered grave injustice in the hands of Amaechi in Rivers. I am telling you this, God Almighty is my witness, I will show you these text messages so that you can confirm it.

“Amaechi used the police and power to harass, intimidate and punish people unjustly. Mbu has refused to be a tool in the hands of Amaechi and has refused to bend to his unjustified high handedness. However, because he is supported by the opposition, he now presents Mbu as a villain. It is not true. He is a professional; he is a man of dignity who has remained steadfast……

“People must find the truth. The Holy book says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Nigerians are becoming too gullible, they swallow anything hook, line and sinker. I am glad that Chief Obasanjo as an elder statesman is trying to mediate; he has mediated in many international conflicts and has recorded successes, but in his own country people cannot listen because the stakes are higher than Obasanjo’s intervention. People are looking for power in 2015.

“So am not surprised that there is no result. How will these five governors be at a meeting and they will not rally round Obasanjo and solve the problem. The elite in this country are only after their own interest.”

While admitting that there are lots of challenges facing the country, Okupe said “yes there are a lot of challenges in the country: there is high unemployment; there are insecurity issues. There is no doubt about that. But to say that nothing is being done about them is absolute nonsense. It is not true, it is not correct.

“It is just fiction. These are the people who, two years ago, told the whole country and the world that Goodluck Jonathan was clueless. If you say Jonathan is clueless, he is fixing the economy. Today our indices are the best in Africa. Today Nigeria is number one for foreign direct investment.

“The Nigerian railway system that has been abandoned for decades is coming up. Before, we were generating 2800 megawatts of electricity, today, we have more than doubled that. Yet they said the man is clueless.

“There was insurgency that engulfed about 11 states of the federation, today it has been reduced to three states and yet the man is clueless. There was a time when bombing was a daily occurrence, people were dying in numbers. It was impossible to do anything in the northern part of the country; all that is gone. For the first time in four years, a durbar was organised to celebrate Eidel Fitri in Borno State”.

The presidential aide also debunked the speculation that President Jonathan awarded ex-militant, Government Ekpumopolo alias Tompolo, a contract to secure oil pipelines, saying “I don’t know of any deal or contract between Tompolo as a person. I am not aware. Whether Tompolo is involved in a company that is operating security issues on the Nigerian waters is a different matter and I will not comment on something that is fallacious.

“I have heard so many things that Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and people who have contracts on oil pipelines, it is a fallacy. It was the late President Yar’Adua, as part of his good will for the Amnesty programme, who felt that it was better to use people who are local, people who know the terrain rather than outsiders to police those terrains. So he gave those guys those contracts.

“The contracts expired during the time of President Jonathan and up till today, those contracts were never renewed.”
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Well!!!!!! I am surprise to hear a politician quoting Bible. I just like GEJ style has a person, this Governors need to come back to their sense. Not to allow politics to overwhelm their brain. All of them are fighting for their pockets; imagine Amechi& Jang telling Obasanjo that his idea is bad, all because of the fraudulent benefits they want to gain from it. The betterment is near approach; let us be patient and pray for better people to help us out.

like she said....if jonathan wants 2 contest nd u r nt hapi about it go 2 d polls nd defeat im...shikena

like she said....if jonathan wants 2 contest nd u r nt hapi about it go 2 d polls nd defeat im...shikena

Oloriburuku oga ati omo ishe. Okupe ooni ku ire. Omo jati jati.

Which number be ur own laptop?

Babiloko: like she said....if jonathan wants 2 contest nd u r nt hapi about it go 2 d polls nd defeat im...shikena

Baba_Eleko: Which number be ur own laptop?

wot r u sayin

Babiloko: wot r u sayin

Of the Alibaba and the 40 armed robbers.

Baba_Eleko:

Of the Alibaba and the 40 armed robbers.

nawa

Babiloko: nawa

shattap, which laptop no?
Just tell ur oga to leave Amaechi alone. 2015 is around the corner, dem no born am for Aso Rock.

Baba_Eleko: Which number be ur own laptop?

40 laptop crew, right?
Their season is drawing close!
2015...

Hoping to hear from Amaechi soon ...

Bliss4Lyfe:
shattap, which laptop no?
Just tell ur oga to leave Amaechi alone. 2015 is around the corner, dem no born am for Aso Rock.

haters r gon b haters...fact of life

I failed to read the fresh offensive...
Just disclaimers..

True word!
The governors that want to save Nigeria now, where were they when boko haram was ravaging the north? Did that not constitute a threat to our democracy?
Nigerians are just too ignorant to see beyond the facade of pretended patriotism and statesmanship. This is why we are played as fo..ols daily.

Baba_Eleko: Oloriburuku oga ati omo ishe. Okupe ooni ku ire. Omo jati jati.

Jona will still win the presidential election of 2015.

ebenezer4o2:
“If Jonathan wants to contest and you are not happy about it, go to the poll and defeat him….Nigerians must wake up. What is four years in the life of a country? Is it worth burning a country? Is it worth destroying our democracy?”

It is so obvious from this statement that everyone in aso drunk rock is on some kind of drug, guy needs to go to serious countries and see how they change in four years or less or is it not in same four years that his oga is destroying the country?

Okupe has said it all....if u are not happy with Gej's tenure go and challenge him at the polls...All this unecessary noise by the aggrieved pdp govs and the opposition is just a waste of time..2015 will shut them up.

Chief Thief Doyin Okupe is nothing but a lying fraudster who should be in jail were Nigeria a sane country....

Benue contract scam: Okupe lawyers admit he collected money

The lawyers to the embattled presidential spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has admitted that he collected reasonable amount of money on the controversial contracts in the two states.

The Lagos law firm of Yemi Gbonegun and Co who spoke for the presidential aide on Tuesday said  that the rural road construction contracts were awarded in 2004 in Benue and 2005 Imo states  to companies in which Dr. Okupe has substantial interests and served as Chairman, but denied they were awarded to him personally.

According to the law firm,” beyond the mobilisation payments, those companies received other payments over a period exceeding two years continuously for work done”.

“We also confirm that contrary to reports in the media, on no account did any of the companies bolt away with any money and if they had, the state governments would have legally had recourse to the Bank Guarantees issued, held the banks accountable and recovered their monies,” the statement said.

Its further disclosed that the disputes about certificates of payments arose in both transactions, claiming that this is normal between a contractor and its employers, and that the issues were at different times thoroughly investigated by the EFCC, but that no fraud or any criminality was ever found against any of the Companies.

Its also said that the case of Imo State Government a settlement agreement out of court was reached while in Benue State both parties agreed to go in for arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the signed contract document,” it further said.

The statement by Yemi Gbonegun and Co which has raised more questions than its  answered as it could not   did not explain why, as previously reported by the media that, Dr. Okupe was personally detained by the EFCC for an entire month in 2006.

In 2005, during the tenure of Governor Achike Udenwa, Okupe went to Imo state with a business partner, the Israeli businessman, Ilan Salman.  Okupe got a contract to import Romix Soil fix, a soil stabilising substance, from South Africa for the construction of four kilometres of road in each of the 27 local government areas at the rate of N14 million per km.

This amounted to a whooping sum of N1.512 billion.

Okupe was paid mobilization fee of N400 million twice.

He was then paid another N350 million for the little work done, with just about 8km out of the 108km Romix promised to construct.

This means that Okupe was paid over N1.2billion, with very little to show for it.

The presidential spokesman was alleged to have collaborated with the former Speaker of the Imo State Assembly, Chief Godfrey Dikeocha to defruad state.

In its  the anti-graft agency intensified effort t to un-ravel the mystery behind  daylight fraud, Okupe’s engineers were arrested in Owerri alongside the LGA chairmen   and moved to Ikoyi, Lagos.

His head office, which was at that time on Isale Eko Street in Dolphin Estate, was sealed up and Chief Okupe locked up for one month by the EFCC, but he was never tried.

The situation was the same  in Benue State   through one of his company, Messrs Value Trust Investments Ltd., Okupe secured a contract valued at N2.303 billion, again for the construction of rural roads across the state and was   paid N886.8m in July 17,2006 .

http://dailypost.com.ng/2012/08/22/benue-contract-scam-okupe-lawyers-admit-collected-money/

If Goodluck Jonathan, as Doyin Okupe claims, has not declared his intention on whether or not to contest in 2015, why should he be afraid of those with the intetion?

SlyIg: Hoping to hear from Amaechi soon ...

Hear what,? Okupe has hit them below belt, imagine the foolish men chasing rat while their house is on fire.

Bliss4Lyfe:
shattap, which laptop no?
Just tell ur oga to leave Amaechi alone. 2015 is around the corner, dem no born am for Aso Rock.

Go and hug transformer.

Bliss4Lyfe:
shattap, which laptop no?
Just tell ur oga to leave Amaechi alone. 2015 is around the corner, dem no born am for Aso Rock.

Haters will always hate. I suggest you hit your head on the floor or hug transformer. GEJ (PDP) till 2019.

Garri the 1st: Chief Thief Doyin Okupe is nothing but a lying fraudster who should be in jail were Nigeria a sane country....



http://dailypost.com.ng/2012/08/22/benue-contract-scam-okupe-lawyers-admit-collected-money/

Forget the massenger, focus on the message.

The war is far from being ended.

first , resuscitation of the railway did not start under Jonathan, it started as far back as the year 2000 and billions upon upon billions has been expended. when you look at the time , the amount of money spent and the number of track miles in use today, you can only conclude that this is a shameless government that celebrates mediocrity.

it's like a child taking jamb for the 14th time and shouting that he finally scored 30 from a total score of 400.

electricity generation
in the year 2002, president obasanjo gave a target electricity generation of 4000 watts to the then minister of power, lynel imoke. after spending billions of NAIRA, they had a reception in the state house celebrating the attainment of this goal. eleven years later, billions of dollars later, a shameless presidential spokesman is still lieing about doubling 2000 watts when actually at a point this year it actually hovers around 1500 watts.

where has all the money gone? what happens to the promised targets of 2007, 2009, 2011 and by the end of 2012?

this is nothing but a shameless govt controlled by a big for nothing party with a clueless and incompetent president.

St_Obaino: The war is far from being ended.

what we are saying is that the message is a big lie and the messenger is even a bigger and blatant LIAR!