Finally, Okupe joins Accord Party

By Bode Olagoke Abuja

Less than three weeks he dumped the People Democratic Party (PDP), a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Aff airs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has formally joined the Accord Party (AP). Okupe revealed this in a Facebook post yesterday, saying that he would soon announce his formal entry into the party in Ogun state. Th e former spokesman to Jonathan said politics is not all about losing and winning elections but about building relationships and helping to evoke social change. Th e former presidential wrote, “Following various consultations with political associates, family and friends I have decided to formally join the Accord Party. My decision is based on deep refl ection 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.” On whether or not he would seek elective position, Okupe said: “I am not desperate to be anything anymore but I am desperate to fi nd 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, selfi shness 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 benefi t of a few.

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