kestolove95:
What do u expect from indomie brain man?since his clueless boss couldn't fight BH he thinks everybody can't fight dem

kestolove95:
What do u expect from indomie brain man?since his clueless boss couldn't fight BH he thinks everybody can't fight dem

kestolove95:
What do u expect from indomie brain man?since his clueless boss couldn't fight BH he thinks everybody can't fight dem

Segadem:
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in this interview
with OLALEKAN ADETAYO , reacts to some of the
criticisms trailing President Goodluck Jonathan
and gives reasons why he deserves a second term
Despite the achievements President Goodluck
Jonathan claims to have made, what will you say
is responsible for the general perception that this
government has performed below expectation?
I like it that you used the word perception. There is
a negative sinister perception created by the
opposition. I will tell you how. The opposition has
a tremendous influence on Nigerian media and
therefore, most of these achievements are
suppressed from coming to public glare. The
second one is that achievements and good news
do not make news but when Boko Haram keeps
bombing and killing, that is the news. I have
looked at newspapers’ headlines for one year, 75
per cent of headlines are on Boko Haram. It
doesn’t matter even if you say that the President
had just gone to commission an industry
somewhere but when you say 285 killed in
Monduga, Borno State, that is what people will
remember.
Insurgency has been overplayed to the extent that
it has overshadowed the laudable achievements of
this administration and it is deliberate. I know for a
fact that the issue of Boko Haram was designed
and executed from the beginning to malign this
administration. There was Boko Haram before this
administration, but the evil people in the society
who felt there was no way they could remove the
administration saw an opportunity and they
encouraged it one way or the other to the extent
that we never had rest in the last two to three
years.
Do you exercise any fear of possible post-election
violence in the country?
That question should go to APC people. They are
the ones that are identified with violence and also
canvass for violence and perpetrate violence. There
is no doubt about it, they have said it before and
they have made it happen. We have nothing to do
with violence. We win all the time, we are going to
win again. We just pray that when we win, people
will accept it readily and not create violence as
they did in 2011. Many people who suffered the
2011 violence have not recovered from it.
One of the achievements being pointed to by this
administration is the unbundling of the Power
Holding Company of Nigeria, why is it that
Nigerians still do not have electricity?
The unbundling of the PHCN is a major event. It
took 15 years and finally it took the courage,
tenacity and commitment of President Jonathan to
see it through. Without the unbundling of the
PHCN, we will be a non-starter in terms of power
generation. Government cannot provide what is
required to provide Nigerians’ electricity needs.
Nigerians today need 50,000MW. We are looking at
about $40bn to $50b, that is multiple trillions in
naira. All we have in our capital vote in a year is
about N1tr, where will we get that kind of money
from? So we have to break down the power
infrastructure so as to encourage foreign direct
investors to come and invest and take it over just
like the telecommunications.
Don’t you think the issue of the missing Chibok
girls has affected the political fortune of the
President?
It is not just Chibok girls; everything that has to do
with this insurgency has affected the political
fortune of the President. The good news however
is that in spite of it all, this administration has
verifiable and concrete achievements that nobody
can argue about.
How do you react to the claim by the opposition
that the President lacks the capacity to fight Boko
Haram?
It is only the mentally derailed that will say that.
Because there is insurgency here, then the
government is not doing well. It is nonsense talk.
It is absolute nonsense talk. Insurgency is not a
Nigerian affair. How much is our national budget?
About N4tr. How much is that in dollars? Is that
not $2b? That is not up to what America gives to
Egypt on a yearly basis. It is only foolish people
and some not too experienced politicians as well
as ignorant and mischief makers that will say that
because Jonathan’s administration has not been
able to end insurgency, then he does not have
what it takes to tackle Boko Haram.
When Buhari says he will end insurgency, that is
total rubbish. He does not know what he is talking
about, it is not going to happen unless he is the
one who controls the boys on the field. That is the
only reason why he can end insurgency
immediately. Because in that case, what he needs
to do as their commander is to ask them to stop
and they will stop. If that is not the case, nobody
can say he will end insurgency like that. That is
just political gimmick and nobody should take him
seriously. The issue of insurgency is not a
campaign performance of President Jonathan.
Apart from security, another major fallout of
ongoing campaigns is corruption. How will you
rate this administration’s anti-corruption drive?
I don’t need to rate this administration’s anti-
corruption drive. If I say it, nobody will believe me.
Why should you believe me? Why should APC
believe me? Why should Nigerians believe me? I
am a beneficiary of this government. But there are
world institutions that have in the past castigated
us and condemned us, but are saying another
thing now. Two years ago, we were 147th out of
over 170 nations when they did the corruption
perception index of Transparency International. We
did not abuse them, we accepted it and said we
were going to improve and we have done that.
Today, the same organisation says we are 136th,
we have moved eight points in two years. These
are independent and objective observers. It does
not mean that we are no longer corrupt, it is
evident that something is being done about it.
The President appointed Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,
who has a case pending in court, as the
spokesman of his campaign organisation. He also
granted pardon to Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
who was convicted of corruption. How will you
marry these with the President’s anti-corruption
war?
Granting pardon to somebody, is that corruption?
How can you say that? I expect people who are
educated and knowledgeable to stay away from
things that do not make sense. When these events
happened, we showed you that prerogative of
mercy is the preserve of the President. Look at
Presidents all over the world: murderers have been
granted mercy; drug peddlers have been granted
mercy. It is a prerogative of mercy. In the case of
Alamieyeseigha, why do our people exhibit so
much hatred? Alamieyeseigha was accused of
corruption, he was tried for corruption, he was
found guilty and jailed for corruption. He finished
his term, his properties were seized. Why don’t
you just give a gun to the President to shoot him?
What is wrong if he granted him pardon? How can
that be corruption? That is not corruption. He
exercised the power that is given to him. At every
celebration of national events, President, governors
and even state chief judges grant pardons to
murderers and other criminals to leave prisons.
This one had served his term.
Chief Fani-Kayode has a case in court. The law
says you are not guilty until you are declared so
by a court. He had many charges levelled against
him, virtually all of them were quashed by the
court because they were either exaggerations or
things that cannot be backed by facts. There is
absolutely nothing wrong in making Fani-Kayode
the spokesman. He is very competent, he is good
at it, he has the intellect and he is in a position to
do the job. If he goes to court and he is found
guilty, then the law can take its course. You
cannot say because he has a case in court,
therefore, he cannot work. And it is not a case of
corruption really. That is not an issue.
How will you react to the belief that those of you
who surround the President always respond with
anger to criticism and attack personalities instead
of addressing issues?
What issues are there to attend to? Those who call
the President clueless, those who say the
President is a drunkard, those who say the
President is a non-performer, are those issues? It
is just because this President is liberal. We do not
have a choice than to be angry. I am angry
because I know that people are painting the
President in colours that he does not deserve and
they are doing it deliberately, not based on facts.
They are using the media to manipulate the minds
of people. They abuse the President but when we
respond, they will say it is unpresidential. If you do
not want to be insulted, do not insult others.
You once predicted that APC will not last one
year. The party is almost two years now. How do
you feel?
My prediction helped them because I found out
that every day they meet, instead for them to fight,
they will say ‘you know Okupe predicted that we
are not going to last, so let us beg one another.’
So what I have done is to help them because we
wanted a very serious opposition and we are
praying that they will not break. If I did not say so,
they would have broken and there would have
been no contest. So they should thank me for
saying so.

stinggy:
Kaii... This man's foolishness is legendary.
How does he manage to spew so much trash anytime he speaks