‘Amaechi Has Allowed Himself To Be Used By The Opposition’–The Presidency Is Heartbroken ■  The Presidency yesterday took a swipe at the opposition and concluded that all the opposition figures were jokers whose sole intent was to attack the person of President Jonathan without bringing an alternative to the table. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, who made this position known on a ‘Liberty Fm Kaduna’ Radio Program, also berated Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State for allowing himself to be used by the opposition. “Amaechi is a willing tool, very rich, wealthy, so he is very useful to the opposition. Because Mbu (Police Comissioner) has refused to be a tool in the hands of Amaechi and has refused to bend to the unjustified high handedness of Amaechi, because he is supported by the opposition, he now presents Mbu as a villain. It is not true. Mbu is a professional man, he is a man of dignity who has remained steadfast”, Okupe blared. Okupe said it was a pity the newly registered All Progressives Congress (APC) had nothing to offer Nigerians; “They are people whose ideas are no longer relevant to where Nigeria intends to go in the nearest future. They are people who cannot contribute or redirect the ship of state; people who have no fundamentals within them; people who have no ideology except hatred or ethnic chauvinism or personal aggrandisement. This is not the change Nigeria wants, these people can definitely not be called messiahs. This is mega nonsense, period,” he fumed. Okupe also said the reason why former Minister of the FCT, El-Rufai was belly-aching was because he is not in Government. He said El-Rufai’s utterances should not be taken seriously; “If I castigate El-Rufai, it is because I am doubly qualified to do so. I am his brother and we have very strong family ties that dates back over 21 years. When we were in Lagos, if we were eating inside with his senior brother Bashir, El-Rufai will sit outside. So I am not his friend, he is my younger brother and I am in a position, going by the African way, I have the moral right, I have the age, I have the knowledge, I have the experience, I have the position to tell El-Rufai that he is wrong and I am saying it on this medium that El-Rufai must check his ways.”
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:07:18 +0000