Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant on Public Affairs to Goodluck Jonathan
Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant on Public Affairs to former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has stated categorically that the southwest demands that the position of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party be zoned to it.
Okupe noted that failure for a Yoruba man to emerge as the national chairman can only mean two things: “That there is a pervasive and concealed hatred for the southwest in the PDP” or “That the PDP has very little or no regard for Yoruba interest as was evinced in the obvious cheating of the Southwest from the position of the Speaker in 2011, which was never rectified nor compensated for the whole of four years.
In his piece titled: “PDP and the burden of Justice and Equity” Okupe said, “There is an embarrassing falsehood being propagated by political charlatans from the southwest and some influential collaborators in the top echelon of the PDP.
“The seed of this misrepresentation was sowed by a group of political clowns and court jesters under the leadership of Senator Buruji Kashamu, a political impostor who claims he is the leader of the party and the Yorubas in the Southwest.
“On the 21st of April 2016, the cream of the authentic Yoruba leadership in the southwest gathered at the Golden Gates Hotel on Kingsway Road, Ikoyi, under the Chairmanship of Chief Olabode George, a retired Air Commodore, former governor, former deputy national chairman of PDP and a grandson of the revered, legendary and world acclaimed, distinguished Yoruba icon and politician,
Sir Herbert Macaulay.
“At that meeting the true sons and daughters of Yoruba land in an unprecedented unity condemned the erstwhile claim by the Yoruba traitors who went and lied to the PDP chairman, His Excellency Sen Ali Modu Sheriff, that …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
