Doyin Okupe, former presidential aide in the Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan administrations has called the attention of the incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike to the fact that he is too small politically to tackle him.
Okupe insisted he is the governor’s senior by all standards. He said this while reacting to a recent public attack by Wike on the National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus.
Wike had called Secondus a serial liar and one whose words cannot be trusted.
The PDP National Chairman who was present when Wike made the allegations, in annoyance, stormed out of the event.
Okupe on his his part, took to his Twitter page to demand that the Rivers State Governor apologises for his outburst.
He described Wike’s statement as reckless, indecent, irresponsible and unacceptable.
According to the former presidential aide, “I have observed that there are too many anomalies and practices which are alien to party politics which are being thrown to the upcoming young ones as the norm.”
In another Twitter post, Okupe said he has the right to call derailing members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to order as a senior member of the party.
He boasted that Wike is too small politically adding that his contemporaries are the likes of former governors Peter Odili and Rufus Ada George and that he is a leader to the current governor.
In another tweet, Doyin Okupe added that “I Believe I have the right and the merit to call our members to order irrespective of their status in the party.”
“For a fact, my contemporaries in the political hierarchy of Rivers State are former governors Rufus Ada George and Peter Odili. So I am a senior and leader to our indefatigable Gov Wike Politically.
“Therefore, I consider it a duty to intervene at this juncture,” Okupe said.
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