Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe in an interview on Channels television, and twitting today said the opposition party made a grave mistake at a time Nigerians were clamouring for development and dissociation from anything or anyone that has anything to do with the country’s past.
“When Buhari emerged as the APC standard bearer, I knew that was a fatal error; it’s a fatal error because number one, Nigerians are looking for future development, you know, a disengagement from everything that has got to do with our past.
“You are looking at Major-General Buhari, Babangida, Abdulsalam, Obasanjo. These are very respectable elders and leaders who have done their best but they are a phase of our leadership that is passing off,” Okupe said.
Okupe, a member of the ruling PDP, said the opposition could not be talking about change with someone who would remind Nigerians of their gloomy history. He said it was important to note that Nigerians needed to make a clear decision between having a transformation agenda that has worked and produced results and one which, he said, does not have vision.
“For APC to have now brought, you know, part of our past history that we are not so proud of and then they are talking about change. How can you make a change with somebody who was part of our problem?” he asked.
“We know that Nigerians are not stupid, you know, a clear decision will have to be taken between having an agenda – transformation agenda – that has worked, that has produced. “And having listened to Buhari, who has spoken on about three occasions – at his declaration, at his inauguration, I mean, at his primary. And I have asked people and nobody can remember anything that Buhari has said.
“There is no vision. The only thing that has been told to us – not even by him but by other people – is that Buhari has integrity and he is honest and he is incorruptible, which are also not true,” he said. “At the appropriate time, these issues will be taken up.
Part-ource: Thisday