Media manager, Gabriel Poopola takes Dr. Doyin
Okupe and President Goodluck Jonathan to the
cleaners in this piece for their utterances and
conducts respectively.
A couple of days ago, the nation became agog with
the news that Presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe,
likened his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan, to
Jesus Christ. In his attempt to ensure that Nigerians
see more than enough reasons to support and vote for
the PDP in the coming elections, Dr. Okupe simply
redefined sycophancy, took servility to a new height,
and introduced a new interpretation of groveling
ingratiation.
Before pointing out Dr. Okupe’s obvious wrongness in
his labour of thralldom, which peaked days ago in his
imprudent testimonial of President Jonathan being
comparable to the Lord Jesus Christ, it is important to
say a few words about this man who, for reasons
beyond human explanation, has intentionally refused
to grow into a man that he ought to be. It is the
nature of a child to go with just anyone, including a
stranger, who holds a jar of candy or chocolates in
their hands, even if that stranger is the number one
enemy of the child’s father, and one who seeks to
destroy the child’s life. The kid’s concern, against all
judgement, is just to grab and enjoy the offer. This is
Dr. Doyin Okupe’s manner of living, in a nutshell.
Listening to Dr. Okupe as he goes about his business
of trying to justify his pay, an essential revelation
about him stares one in the face – he is a child,
wearing an old man’s body. I’m aware that in the
enterprise of politics, partisanship is a must and
political actors often do foolish things. But as it has
been observed all over the place, their foolish acts are
often covered in inviting and enticing robes of choice
words and appealing gestures; but not Dr. Okupe. He
goes about his business totally naked and striped of
all forms of decorum. If he is not abusing critics of Mr.
President, he is asking Nigerians to rename him
Bastard if the APC, the opposition political party,
does not go into extinction within its first year of
existence. This is tragic.
To support his infantile spectacle of repulsive jabs,
Dr. Okupe claims he is a firm believer in certain ideals
espoused by Mr. President. This is total poppycock.
Recall that when President Obasanjo held sway, Dr.
Okupe was everywhere praising the former president
to high heavens. At that time, OBJ was the best thing
to have happened to Nigeria. What ideals did Okupe
believe in at that time? Now that President Jonathan
is in power, Okupe has shifted his loyalty to Jonathan,
claiming rather ridiculously that President Jonathan is
the best president Nigeria has ever had! Really? That
must be some great news! The truth is that Dr. Okupe
is not governed by any ideology, philosophy or creed.
If he has any motivation in life at all, it is filthy lucre!
He is ruled by money!
I believe in loyalty. The Bible teaches it. It is a good
virtue – one that grows the follower into a leader, and
causes the master to give all manner of support to the
loyal disciple. But loyalty and foolishness are not
spelt the same way; neither do they mean the same
thing. Okupe totally misapprehends the concept of
loyalty. Loyalty is determined devotion to a course or
an individual for a good end; it is an attachment to
something or someone with a view to enhancing,
promoting and securing the success of the thing or
person. As it can be clearly seen, this is not what Dr.
Okupe is engaged in. He seems set to destroy
whatever remains of his principal’s diminished
goodwill.
If Dr. Okupe must know, he is President Jonathan’s
number one foe. His garrulousness, tactless
effusiveness, and unabashed loquaciousness are
atypical. But then, in this open show of witless
chattiness that has come to define his humanity, the
person who takes all, not just much, of the entire
blame is Mr. President himself. Truth be told,
President Jonathan’s ability to hobnob with leading and powerful
spiritual leaders to shore up his rating. But I’ll like to
say that leadership goes beyond serving just the
people only; God, whether this is believed or not, is
keenly monitoring affairs of the world. When a leader
steals, embezzles, deceives, kills, destroys, and then
pushes his nation into a backward movement, God
sees and records. And no amount of prayers (wherever
it is offered) or laying on of hands, will bring divine
blessings until the leader repents and does what is
right! This is the Bible and nothing changes this!
As long as Nigerians are suffering as a function of the
actions and inactions of President Jonathan, God
cannot be expected to suddenly break his Word and
continue to support him. God honours his Word. God’s
mercies can be sought and received, but the receiving
heart must be ready to change. With our national
wealth being gleefully stolen; with our patrimony
being squandered by a few at the top; with millions of
Nigerians being daily driven deeper into despair; with
funds meant for security agencies being diverted into
private pockets; with the word “shame” daily become
more conspicuous on the faces of Nigerians; it is
certain that President Jonathan’s approach will not
work for him, just like it did not work for King Saul,
his real look-alike.
Dr. Okupe must therefore tell his leader that Nigerians
have wised up. They won’t accept, any longer, some
empty religious lines delivered by some empty
fellows. They won’t accept that he is similar to the
Lord Jesus Christ, except they see real changes.
However, I doubt if any change will occur now, given
Aso Rock’s preoccupation with winning 2015
presidential election. A preoccupation that is bound to
end in whispers and tales!
Poopola’s condmenation of Okupe is in order, as the
presidential assistant has done more harm to the
Jonathan’s government than good. His condmnation
of the president’s policies and style of governance is
subject to debate and should be left for the citizenry
to decide.
Courtesy: Naij.com
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