Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special
Assistant to The President on Public
Affairs, this evening, in Lagos, replied
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s critics,
saying “responsible leaders don’t talk
like this.”
He asked rhetorically. “Did you see
any leader anywhere ridiculing their
president like this?”
He spoke to media men at the
Renaissance Hotel, Alausa, Ikeja.
When journalists pushed Okupe to
comment on the “letter bomb” written
by his former boss, Olusegun
Obasanjo, to Jonathan, he responded
that he was “duty bound not to
comment on it,” because, “you people
have read enough reactions and
comments on it in the papers.”
However, when he was speaking on
the terrorism crisis, he dismissed
Obasanjo’s “carrot and stick”
suggestion as mundane because, as
he put it, “things have gone beyond
the old model.”
In his words, the Nigerian military
personnel are doing their best, even
though many Nigerians have become
“experts on insurgency”.
Then Okupe took a dig at the leaders
of All Progressives Congress, APC
“who move in agbada from city to
city, fishing for leaders from the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
because (APC) has no leader.
Okupe dismissed APC as a collection
of those who wrecked Nigeria.
“How will Nigeria be saved if all the
people troubling Nigeria are not put in
a boat that will sink?” Okupe asked.
He added that when Jonathan defeats
this so called giant (APC), then all
glory will be to God.”
He wanted Nigerians to realise that
although the opposition had been
claiming that Jonathan had not done
anything, Okupe said that rather than
attacking personalities, he prefers “to
operate from the point of view of
incontrovertible evidence on which
you journalists can take me to task.”
Thus, on road, he listed 37 different
projects some of which have been
completed across the six geo political
zones.
With regard to power, he boasted that
Jonathan, through the power sector
reform, had boosted electricity from
2,600mw to an installed capacity of
6,700mw “with 2,300mw additional
fresh generation capacity expected
from NIPP project by next year.”
The only trouble, as he explained,
was in the interruption of gas supply
as a result of vandalisation of
pipelines.
“We can from here go up, we cannot
go down,” said he.
On the economy, he was not happy
about the way critics attack the
government, which they claim parade
high GDP when poverty ravages the
land.
“When you meet a rot, It is like a
sinking building.
To put the foundation in order, you
have a lot of work to do which may
not be visible. Yet, people passing by
will say no work is being done,” he
reasoned.
Okupe, therefore, challenged
Nigerians to do their research well,
saying that “there is no international
economic fora where Nigeria has not
been praised.”
He added: “These organisations are
not fools. We did not bribe them.”
Okupe claimed that the Jonathan
administration is “the best since
indepdence in 1960.”
He further spoke on the Jonathan
administration’s achievements in
health, aviation reforms, education,
agriculture, sports development,
security and others.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/12/22/okupe-blasts-jonathans-critics-apc-leaders/

It's getting more interesting!

hmm........It's Well.