Doyin Okupe
Doyin Okupe, a former spokesperson to the ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to the claim made by Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the chairman of the national conference of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that the candidacy of his ex-boss was a mistake.
Okupe who took to his Facebook page on Sunday, November 15, insisted that the decision by the PDP to field Jonathan in the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections was not an error.
“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.
“All over the world, when an incumbent signifies intention for a second term, it is customary that the established machinery of the party wholly backs and gratifies such intentions,” Okupe noted.
Further in his post Okupe listed three “mistakes”, which Jonathan made as the 2015 election drew nearer.
“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 survived. The situation in Burundi today is highly instructive.”
However, the former spokesman expressed his assurance that history will treat Goodluck Jonathan as “one of the greatest heroes of this generation of African leaders”.
“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. Rather I speak as a student of History and a veritable stakeholder in the Nigerian project,” Okupe added.
Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson of the PDP presidential campaign, also said that the party did not make any mistake in choosing Jonathan.
In response to Dokpesi, he noted that it was unnecessary to apologize for allowing Jonathan to be the PDP’s presidential candidate.
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