{"id":59964,"date":"2017-10-23T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59964"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:29:12","slug":"no-opposition-nigeria-says-doyin-okupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/no-opposition-nigeria-says-doyin-okupe\/","title":{"rendered":"No opposition in Nigeria says Doyin Okupe\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A former presidential spokesperson, Chief Doyin Okupe has observed that there are no opposition in the country to checkmate the excesses of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, this core ingredient of democracy is non existent because of what he identified as ethnic bigotry.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a Facebook post Okupe maintained that ethnic sentiments, which is sometime confused for religion, is an evil norm that continue to hold down the nation.<\/div>\n<p>\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,\u201d the Ogun born politician wrote on his Facebook page\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_649469715\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason is very obvious and it is the very foundation of our national malaise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts simply ETHNICITY. This monster has done more harm to Nigeria as a nation more than anything else. Sometimes we confuse it with Religion. This is a sad fallacy. Ethnicity supercedes religion in terms of the evils holding the Nation down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttressing his claim, the former presidential aide recalled that acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election, late MKO Abiola was prevented from taking charge of the country because of ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>\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,\u201d Mr. Okupe pointed out, adding that a chieftain of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is facing similar fate.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media is worse and that is quite a national disaster.<br \/>\n\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Theswitchnews.com<\/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>A former presidential spokesperson, Chief Doyin Okupe has observed that there are no opposition in the country to checkmate the excesses of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). &nbsp; According&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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