Former Senior Special Assistant on Public
Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan,
Doyin Okupe, has formally joined the Accord
Party.
He made this known in a press statement he
released on Facebook.
The press statement reads:
“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.
There exists in our communities several
platforms on which such affiliations and
sentiments can be sufficiently gratified.
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.
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 estsblish 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.
Most of our national parties presently and in
the past were put together with a false
sense of national spread but majorly,
irrespective of how they came to power,
end up being inequitable and manifestly
exists to serve the interests of a minority
few and/or that of a tiny section of the
country.
I want to belong to a political party that will
be able to publicly state it’s 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.
An official date of declaration by me and my
numerous supporters in Ogun state will be
announced shortly.
DR DOYIN OKUPE”
