Okupe Says Buhari is a Wrong Candidate for the APC
The presidency has berated the choice of former Head of State, Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, describing it as a “fatal error”.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, made this known on Monday morning in an interview with Channels Television, saying the opposition party would have done better to choose a candidate that had no known history in the country as Nigerians were clamouring for development.
He said: “When Major Buhari emerged as the APC flag 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.
“For APC to have now brought, you know, part of our past history that we are not so proud of and then you are talking about change, you know, how can you make a change with somebody who was part of our problem?
“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, you know, Buhari has spoken about three occasions – at his declaration, at his inauguration, I mean, at his primaries. I have asked people; nobody can remember anything that Buhari has said.
“There is no vision, you know. 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.”
Okupe also reiterated his confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan would defeat Mr. Buhari in the 2015 general elections.