A former presidential spokesman and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Doyin Okupe, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is determined to hold on to power.
Okupe made the statement, yesterday, in a programme monitored on a national television.
He made the assertion while expressing his view on the midnight postponement of elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, February 16.
He said: “APC is very unrelenting in its pursuit of power. The government has the capacity to overuse the power of the Federal Government. This government may not ordinarily want to concede defeat. But, by the time of approaching the elections, a political underdog like Atiku Abubakar has overtaken the king.”
Okupe described Atiku as a beetle that cannot be killed by the federal government due to his widespread acceptance and continuously rising popularity among Nigerians.
Okupe, who is the special adviser on Media to Director General of Atiku Campaign Organisation, said he is in a position to know more than an average person, having served in high positions of past governments. He alleged that the latest postponement was informed by sabotage, notwithstanding the reasons of logistics and bad weather adduced by the electoral body. He further recalled that INEC offices were burnt prior to the election and alleged deliberate diversion of planes carrying sensitive electoral materials.
“You have an organisation like INEC with top people in top places serving different interests. We’ve read of a plane being diverted from Enugu to Port Harcourt. Where do such order come from? It is beyond the scope of an ordinary Nigerian to understand what really happened without a deep probe; we will just be wasting our time,” he said.