AN aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has said that the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is arguably the most popular politician in the northern Nigeria at present.



Okupe stated this in a post on his Facebook wall on Sunday in reaction to muted attempts by some elements within the PDP to field the embattled acting National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff as the substantive chairman in the party’s forthcoming election.

Okupe said if the PDP must win election at the presidential level, it must field a candidate that enjoys a wider appeal across Nigeria, particularly among the northern grassroots like Buhari.

“Presently and for some time to come, General Buhari is the most popular Northern politician and leader alive. He stands and will likely stand shoulders taller than any politician in APC or PDP in that region.”

Fielding Jonathan in 2015 was a monumental error.

Meanwhile, Doyin Okupe, has said that the singular mistake made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was the nomination of his boss for second term, despite the ample hint that that the north wanted power back at all cost.

Mr. Okupe said electing the controversial Borno politician would mean repeating the mistake the party made in adopting Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate in 2015.

In a post on his Facebook wall on Sunday, Mr. Okupe, who served Mr. Jonathan as a senior special assistant on public affairs, said the leaders of the opposition party are on the verge of repeating the errors that relegated them from a 16-year political dominance.

“The argument that because the party is weak in the north if the chairman is zoned to the north it will strengthen the party in that zone is a puerile argument,” Mr. Okupe wrote. “It is not supported by fact or history.”

The Ogun State politician added that, because they were in charge of the presidency, he and his colleagues within the PDP underestimated the northern public’s determination to see the post of president returned to the north.

“In retrospect, it is regretful that based on the expedience circumstances of incumbency, we committed a politically fatal error of robbing the north of their turn to have the Presidency in 2015, and we paid dearly for it,” Mr. Okupe said.

“We didn’t know the northerners will be so tenacious in their determination to ensure that they have the presidency back and that is regrettable.”

April 24, 2016.


http://.com/no-politician-alive-can-stand-buharis-popularity-doyin-okupe/

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I'm sure some children of hate will still come to ask for Okupe's head for saying the gospel truth. Though PDP is dead and cremated even 1000 Modu Al-Shereef, Sule Lamido, Muazu and Ali babangida cannot revive the demonic party but Okupe is so onpoint.

Monmisilu Sheikh Buhari.

Why is this post making Indomie to hungry me?

Chai! The fear of dasuki to mention another Bach of names is the beginning of wisdom.

Okupe remain Silent please.
Good Morning Nairalanders

E dun teee way I hear these names Maku, Gulak, Okupe, Kai PDP is a disease.

SamuelAnyawu:
Okupe remain Silent please.

Good Morning Nairalanders

Hahahaha....i just knew Wailers will convulse at this news! lol

Mr Okupe,we know.But the other wailers don't know.

Fear the North.

"Fieding jonathan was a monumental mistake"

This was the same person that said if Apc survives a year, he should be called a bastard


The same person said over his dead body will Buhari rule Nigeria.

See the people jonathan trusted,

Its a pity!

X-president yi sha

One by one dem go dey confess their sin... fear of dasuki mention is very real though...

No politician in the whole world enjoys huge followership within his/her enclave like buhari does. The bastard is just stating the obvious.

People are suffering and Doyin is telling us about his popularity.

How has his popularity made our economy better?

How has his popularity made him sensitive to our plight of poverty that rub us with tears and poverty everything?

All we hear from them is PATIENCE, Nigeria cannot be fixed in a day. Who said we didn't know that.

Doyin, we need a sense of direction, a vision that'd outlive our days, not this senseless talk about popularity.

Its been a while i heard from this man and after coming out of hiding he's heaping praises on buhari? Politician na politician

alrahmanonline:
One by one dem go dey confess their sin... fear of dasuki mention is very real though...

God saved okupe, he didn't get a dime from dasuki then; he was schemed out of things. Though he told buhari can never be the president of Nigeria. Today we know better.

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When we tell wailers, dem nor dey agree.

Now they are drinking Fayose's Ali Modu Shekau's "northern clout" Kool Aid!!

Fielding gej was a monumental error.
You were one of his political advisers.
I'm not so sure you gave him this advice then, because if you do and he declines, you have an option to resign, but money will not allow you to.
Gej sef gan....... what's that your qualification again sir? sorry it doesn't translate to leadership qualities.
That sauce is scary, I don't just know why.

Caseless:
God saved okupe, he didn't get a dime from dasuki then; he was schemed out of things. Though he told buhari can never be the president of Nigeria. Today we know better.

I remembered when he invited Journalists to Aso rock telling them that buhari is unelectable, and the Journalist gave him the suprise of his life when they started shouting APC!

Jonathan was even more popular in 2010/2011, no Nigerian leader has ever been loved as widely as Jonathan was loved, but he bungled the opportunity.

Hmm. These people cannot endure in opposition for just 1 year!!!!! But some group of people were proudly in opposition for 16years

What else can I say than Sai Buhari

Okupe is only stating the obvious. Fielding Jonathan was a fatal error, but a necessary one to deliver Nigeria from the clutches of the killer party.

No northern politician today can win an election in which Buhari is a participant, simply because he's a rare breed amongst the typically greedy, corrupt and materialistic northern politicians.

How satisfying it is to listen to Okupe eat his words with gallons of humility sauce.

Ali Modu Sheriff till 2023!

Doyin olori indomie na now you know

It's not even a contest.

Only OBJ could have.

alrahmanonline:

I remembered when he invited Journalists to Aso rock telling them that buhari is unelectable, and the Journalist gave him the suprise of his life when they started shouting APC!

that's the event i was referring to. He, out of anger said "buhari is unelectable and can never become the president of Nigeria". He's just a fat cow.

obailala:
Jonathan was even more popular in 2010/2011, no Nigerian leader has ever been loved as widely as Jonathan was loved, but he bungled the opportunity.

say it a million times baby! I ve never seen how he couldn't see he was d father of a modern Nigeria ......it takes a clueless mind not to b able to fig that out! just imagine him watching Azazi death n allowing IBB n his boys taking over! ain't that wat really annoyed d rustic General-farmer in Ota?

SamuelAnyawu:
Okupe remain Silent please.

Good Morning Nairalanders

u hate to hear the truth, of a simple truth, in a sane society, ineffectual buffoon is too small to stand pmb

Naijiant:
Buhari is not popular in Kano right now. See why: http://www.naijiant.com/articles/buhari-effect-kano/

those are people that voted for ineffectual buffoon