{"id":59906,"date":"2017-10-20T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59906"},"modified":"2017-10-20T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:07:25","slug":"real-reasons-tinubu-reduced-almost-nothing-apc-doyin-okupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/real-reasons-tinubu-reduced-almost-nothing-apc-doyin-okupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Reasons Tinubu Has Been Reduced To Almost Nothing In APC \u2013 Doyin Okupe."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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, \u201cis reduced more or less to a Southwest leader,\u201d of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said Tinubu, even though a staunch Muslim has been reduced to nothing in the APC because of \u201cethnicity\u201d which he (Okupe) identified as the greatest challenge facing Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, \u201cI 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAs 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe reason is very obvious and it is the very foundation of our national malaise.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIts simply ETHNICITY. This monster has done more harm to Nigeria as a nation more than anything else.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Sometimes we confuse it with Religion. This is a sad fallacy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Ethnicity supercedes religion in terms of the evils holding the Nation down.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cMKO 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cEven 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI recently read a piece ascribed to CAN where the latter was quoted as haven said \u201cBaru a northern Muslim insults his boss Kachukwu a southern Christian.\u201d This is pure ignorance. I may not know exactly what is going on in NNPC but certainly it has nothing to do with religion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cNot 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe media is worse and that is quite a national disaster.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cBut 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe word of God said in Psalm 97 verse 2 says that the Almighty God\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u201cis reduced more&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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