The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has debunked a statement by Doyin Okupe, crediting Senate President Bukola Saraki with his appointment in 2015, Naija Politico learnt.
The
Minister’s Office described Okupe’s statement as a bold-face lie. Okupe
is the Special Adviser (Media) to the Director General of the PDP
Presidential Campaign Council.
“The entire statement by Dr.
Okupe is nothing but fiction writing, for which he deserves a hall of
infamy award (in the fiction writing segment). Not one of the claims he
made in his statement is true”, said Segun Adeyemi, special media
adviser to the minister.
“For the record, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
owes his appointment as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to
President Muhammadu Buhari and no one else. It is therefore laughable
that anyone will seek to take credit for that appointment.
“We
challenge Dr. Okupe, who concocted the story in question, to make
available to Nigerians any evidence he may have to support his assertion
that the President sought the permission of Dr. Saraki to appoint
Alhaji Mohammed as Minister.
“We understand that Dr. Okupe’s
cheap attempt at mud-throwing is nothing but a proxy fight, rooted
deeply in the politics of Kwara State.
“We are aware that Dr.
Okupe’s boss is feeling the heat emanating from the ‘O To Ge’ (enough is
enough) movement in Kwara, and that even the strongest of men will
become disoriented and disillusioned at losing the support of a people
who once venerated them to high heavens. But that is a self-inflicted
wound for which Okupe’s boss, an acclaimed slave master, has no one but
himself to blame.
“Alhaji Mohammed is very proud to lead the ‘O
To Ge’ movement that is set to finally bring down the Berlin Wall of
political hegemony in Kwara State and send Dr. Okupe’s boss into
political oblivion. That will also free Dr. Okupe himself from merely
being his master’s voice, so he can fully devote his time to his
new-found pastime – fiction writing”.
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