AN ATTACK DOG CANNOT CHANGE ITS GROWL : “If APC doesn’t crumble before 2014, don’t call me Okupe” – Presidential aide blows hot

The Senior Special Assistant to President, Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday described leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari as unserious-minded people.
Okupe had predicted that the APC would not last beyond 2014, stressing that they would crumble and disappear from the political scene before the 2015 general elections.
“If they don’t crumble and disappear by 2014, don’t call me Okupe,” he boasted.
The Presidential Aide gave this affirmation during a courtesy visit to THISDAY corporate offices in Lagos on Tuesday.
He avowed that the opposition party was not capable enough to oust the ruling party from power.
He said, “Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari are not serious-minded people; they are going round like people dancing in a market place,” he said, defiantly. “I expect that when you post an aggregate of people of that calibre who want to run government, by now they must have a policy statement on power, agriculture and employment and not just talking about PDP leaving.

“Is it by mouth that they will run the nation? These are not serious-minded people. Can someone get your vote by using word of mouth that PDP should leave without a policy?”
“This is their first time out in national politics; alright, and let me give you some bad news: the relevance that ACN has in Nigerian politics is that they are a Yoruba party. That is what makes them relevant in politics and by dropping that toga, the party is dead.
“They have just formed an abyss; a formless abyss that the Yoruba cannot key into. The Yoruba have always been members of a regional organisation – Action Group (AG), Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), etc. And in any case, what are the electoral credentials of ACN? How many states have they won that they are boasting?”