Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Jonathan , Dr Doyin Okupe has declared emphatically that he is not Buhari's friend.
He made the disclosure while fielding questions in a chat on important national issues which border on Buhari's health status and the fear of the northerners should abything untoward happens to ailing President Buhari who is away in the UK on medical vacation.
Dr Okupe warned that there is no power vacuum in the country to warrant such calls. He cleared the air that no mistake should be made about his assertion in this regard.
According to him, ''There is no power vacuum in the country. Nigerians voted for President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. It was a joint ticket of for-better-or-for-worse, like marriage. Of course, if something goes wrong, Osinbajo takes over. There is no power vacuum, so what are we talking about? And Osinbajo has shown a high degree of competence and capability. Osinbajo is capable and competent. Let him continue to run the government while President Buhari tends to his health. I am not Buhari’s friend. Let no error be made about my statement. Those who are asking President Buhari to resign are playing the ostrich. They are pretending that they did not know that we are in Nigeria. In Nigeria, the president is not just president for himself; he is president for his zone. I know a lot of people may not like this statement but that is the truth. There is a lot of insincerity and childishness in this country. Let us get this straight, what is going on is not a Buhari problem, it is a problem of power sharing and power rotation. If you ask him to resign, what you are saying is that the north, who waited patiently for Obasanjo to finish his eight years, who, again, waited patiently for Jonathan to finish his own term after death prevented Yar’Adua from completing his term, should relinquish power now that it is their turn. It is not done like that. I have no apologies for this statement I am making. That is the truth. When Olusegun Obasanjo became president, it was not him that we made president; the Nigerian people made Obasanjo president because of [M. K. O.] Abiola, who died after having won an election. It was a national consensus. If you remember, the two key parties during that election were PDP and APP. Obasanjo was Yoruba and the candidate for PDP, while (Chief) Olu Falae was also Yoruba and candidate of APP. Head or tail, a Yoruba was going to win. You see, we are liars in this country. We don’t tell ourselves the truth. We are pretenders. The truth is that as long as President Buhari is alive, he is not going to resign because to resign is to relinquish and surrender power to the south when it is actually due to the north. We can’t change the rules in the middle of the game. Once the north serves out its term, the south will do theirs and be alternating it but it seems that death and sickness are now threatening that alternation of power. We should use common sense to overcome that debacle. Just asking President Buhari to resign does not make sense without giving guarantees and assurances to the zone from which he comes. I am not a liar, I don’t like to pretend and I don’t like to deceive myself.''
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