The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe has come out to address issues leading to the just concluded election and its aftermath.
Okupe, who spoke via his Facebook page on Monday, April 20, 2015, reiterated his stance that President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari does not own any West African Secondary School Certificate.
He also chastised the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not being magnanimous in victory and making it look like General Buhari won the election by a landslide.
He also addressed the issue of propaganda and mud-slinging which has not abated, even though the elections have come and gone.
He wrote: “These are very interesting times in our nation
“An election has come and gone. A victor has emerged and the loser has conceded. Yet some of our folks are behaving as if we have just gone through a war between two hostile nations. APC agents all over the place are unrelenting in their tirades of abuses, insults and lies against President Jonathan, his aides and supporters.
“It is shameful that we are still saddled with denying falsehood & fabrications in the social media and even hitherto highly respected Newspapers.
“Missing $20b found in an account in zenith
“PGEJ returns tons of dollars to federation accounts.
“N2trillion spent on elections by PGEJ.
“Okupe says chibok girls will not be found.
“How many lies, deliberate falsehood and evil propaganda, outright curses and attacks must we suffer just because we lost an election in which we were never disgraced.
“Buhari polled 15m (56%) while Jonathan scored 12m (46%)
“Those who talk to us disparagingly should respect the sentiments of the 12 million who voted for Jonathan.
Of course we have our reservations about the results but we will pass on that for now.
“We have lost this election but this is not and can never be a crime. We are all Nigerians and haven lost does not make us less. We should be allowed to bow out peacefully and constitutionally on the 29th of May.
“Yes, I said Buhari was not electable. I also said his victory will not happen. I said and I. Still insist that Buhari has no WAEC certificate.
“I said a lot of things to promote my candidate and many things to put his opponent down.
“I have no regrets for any of the statements I made. Lai Mohammed said worse. This is the nature of politics.
For any one who cares to listen. We will be back period.”
