Former aide to the immediate past
President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has given reasons a national
leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, “is reduced
more or less to a Southwest leader,” of the party.
He said Tinubu, even though a
staunch Muslim has been reduced to nothing in the APC because of “ethnicity”
which he (Okupe) identified as the greatest challenge facing Nigeria.
Okupe said this in a post he
shared on Facebook where he also maintained that there is no opposition party
in the country because of ethnicity, adding that religion, though also a big
issue, is not as bad as ethnicity.
He said, “I have read many
articles and posts including that of my brother Segun adeniyi, wondering out of
frustration whether any opposition party exists in Nigeria today.
“As a matter of fact I can say it
openly and without any equivocation whatsoever or fear of reasonable
contradiction that there is no opposition party in the country.
“The reason is very obvious and
it is the very foundation of our national malaise.
“Its simply ETHNICITY. This
monster has done more harm to Nigeria as a nation more than anything else.
Sometimes we confuse it with Religion. This is a sad fallacy. Ethnicity
supercedes religion in terms of the evils holding the Nation down.
“MKO Abiola was a Muslim but when
the chips were down Ethnicity shot him down both as a party man in NPN and as a
President elect in SDP.
“Even more recently Asiwaju
Tinubu national leader of the APC though a staunch Muslim is more or less
reduced to a southwest leader of APC. He will disagree with me for obvious
reasons but I know what I am saying is the Truth.
“I recently read a piece ascribed
to CAN where the latter was quoted as haven said “Baru a northern Muslim
insults his boss Kachukwu a southern Christian.” This is pure ignorance. I may
not know exactly what is going on in NNPC but certainly it has nothing to do
with religion.
“Not only the leadership or the
elites in Nigeria are deceiving themselves and the populace, the followers or
ordinary citizens are equally engulfed in grand self deception and delusion.
“The media is worse and that is quite a national disaster.
“But I make bold to say this: For
as long as absence of TRUTH and INJUSTICE are the pillars on which this country
rests, true progress and prosperity will be an illusion.
“The word of God said in Psalm 97
verse 2 says that the Almighty God’s Throne rests on the two pillars of
Righteousness and Justice therefore any other throne that rests on Deception
and injustice will not stand no matter how pious, hardworking or puritan its
leadership or its people profess.”
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