The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has congratulated the President -Elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on the victory of the APC at the March 28 Presidential election.
In a statement in Abuja on Saturday, Okupe also said that the Presidency under President Goodluck Jonathan fought a good fight.
Okupe was among numerous members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, who vowed that Buhari would never win the election.
The Presidential aide had added that there was no way the APC would not scatter before the elections.
But in the statement on Saturday, Okupe swallowed all his earlier antagonism against Buhari and his party.
He said, “Let me congratulate Gen. Mohammed Buhari on his success at the 2015 Presidential Polls. I equally congratulate my friend and brother Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, the APC National Leader, and the leaders and members of the APC for this historic success.”
On the good fight he said the Presidency fought, Okupe said, “On our part, we have ran a good race and fought an intense and unrelenting battle from the beginning to the end. Sometimes in the course of defending our Turf the engagements have been Knuckle- breaking and often outrightly vicious.
“The fight and contest for power from time immemorial has always been fierce and intense, it has never been a sport for the Lilly-livered or the faint hearted.”
He said the Presidency was grateful to God that at the end “an outstanding President was finally recognised and accepted by a large number of Nigerians nationwide.”
He stated that despite that a “very good, humble and great man of immense capacity has lost this election,” the Presidency “believes that God must have approved it, hence we accept it as gallant men of faith and as patriotic Nigerians and true democrats.”
Okupe added, “President Goodluck Jonathan has done once again an unprecedented act in Nigeria. As a seating President with immense powers at his disposal, he has respected the voice of the people and willingly and freely surrendered power.
“In a magnanimous manner common only amongst true Democrats, he accepted defeat and congratulated the winner even while the final collations were still on. President Jonathan, by this singular act, stands shoulder taller than most leaders of his generation and even those before his time.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Can I request one the of Okupe please: Please can you just SHUT UP?
ReplyDeleteEverybody want to share in Jonathan's glory sha!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo he should have opposed because he has immense power and end up like gbagbo. Alika
ReplyDeleteI call you basterd just the way you said I should call you if APC survives beyond 2014.
ReplyDeleteDoyin you bastard sorry sir don't feel like I'm insulting you, I'm just obeying your order that I should call you bastard if APC survives beyond 2014
ReplyDeleteDr Doyin Okupe, you are a BASTARD sir!
ReplyDeleteJust obeying your audacious instruction.
Bastard Okupe...
Let us popularize the word for him. Hello Mr. Bastard Doyin Okupe, welcome to reality. The likes of you made Jonathan lose the election. So truly you are a bastard.
ReplyDeleteWhy beg this idiot called Okupe? Why address the fool as sir? He requested to be called a fool and he got what he requested for. Okupe, you are a BIG FOOL...Bam Bam
ReplyDeleteBastard Okupe
ReplyDeleteOkupe is a bloody bastard. A miserable nincompoop. A never do well. A thief and a perfidious idiot.
ReplyDeleteHmmm! E dooooooo%
ReplyDeleteGEJ did what he was supposed to do by conceding defeat. Anyone trying to make a hero out of him for conceding, is a BIG FOOL. How couldn't he? Those of us that antagonised him, saw it coming. We knew his defeat was imminent. Some BIGGER FOOLS are making rubbish comments like; he was never interested in running, people forced him to, he was tired of the position bla! bla! bla! But the was the man pursued the whole thing, showed otherwise. He failed woefully, because he was incompetent. He must hand over, because,it's not his personal property. O.J
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