Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs
to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe,
has revealed that he is joining the Accord party.
Okupe confirmed this in a statement posted on his
Facebook page on Tuesday.
This comes almost three weeks after he
announced his decision to leave the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party had
become menopausal.
“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 exist 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 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.
“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 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 on these issues is a mere
association of elites coming together only to
feather their own nests,” Okupe said in the
statement.
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