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Ex-President Jonathan’s aide, Okupe joins Accord Party

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Ex-President Jonathan’s aide, Okupe joins Accord Party

Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, on Tuesday announced that he has joined the Accord Party.

Okupe had few weeks ago left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but did not tell the party he was leaving the former ruling party that boosted his political career to.

However, in a post on his Facebook wall on Tuesday, Okupe said that after consultations he was formerly joining the Accord Party.

Okupe pointed out that most political parties in the country were set up with a false national spread and that they are only pursuing selfish agenda of a minute section of the country that had continued to hamper Nigeria’s growth.

He said, “Following various consultations with political associates, family and friends I have decided to formally join the Accord Party. My decision is based on deep reflection on who I am and what I want from politics.

“To me politics does not begin and end with winning or losing elections. It’s not about big or small parties either. It’s also beyond personal relationships or endearing associations or friendships.

“To me, politics is about service to the people, policies and ideologies that will serve the best interests of the greater majority of the society, forthrightness and accountability , honour and integrity,” he said.

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Continuing he said, “I am not desperate to be anything anymore but I am desperate to find and work with other Nigerians especially our young and vibrant upcoming politicians, to establish a political incubator to breed a new generation of leaders who will do things right, maintain high ethical standards and abhor greed, avarice, selfishness and impunity.”

“I want to belong to a political party that will be able to publicly state its position on troubling national issues like, requests for self determination by a section of the country, resource control, federalism and restructuring, religious intolerance, atrocities of Fulani herdsman, unequal standards in national university admission policy, and many more.

“Any political party that does not have an openly stated position or stand on these issues is a mere association of elites coming together only to feather their own nests or at best a deceptive political contraption put together by a few to seize power for a few and for the benefit of a few.”

Aside being an aide to former President Jonathan, Okupe also served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

 

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