Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe said in a statement yesterday that the fact that Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election was not a crime.
Okupe alleged in his Facebook post yesterday that the APC agents, all over the place, were unrelenting in their tirades of abuses, insults and lies against Jonathan, his aides and supporters.
“How many lies, deliberate falsehood and evil propaganda, outright curses and attacks must we suffer just because we lost an election in which we were never disgraced?” he asked.
Okupe warned that those talking to Jonathan “disparagingly” should respect the sentiments of the 12 million Nigerians who voted for him.
He said though the Presidency had its reservations about the results of the presidential election, “but we will pass on that for now.
“We are all Nigerians and having lost does not make us less. We should be allowed to bow out peacefully and constitutionally on the 29th of May,” he said.
The presidential aide said he had no regrets for any statements he made on the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, before the election.“Yes, I said Buhari was not electable. I also said his victory will not happen. I said and I still insist that Buhari has no WASC certificate. I said a lot of things to promote my candidate and many things to put his (Jonathan’s) opponent down. I have no regrets for any of the statements I made. Lai Mohammed (APC’s spokesman) said worse. This is the nature of politics. For anyone who cares to listen, we will be back, period,” he said.
He added: “There are very interesting times in our nation. An election has come and gone. A victor has emerged and the loser has conceded. Yet, some of our folks are behaving as if we’ve just gone through a war between two hostile nations.
“It is shameful that we’re still saddled with denying falsehood and fabrications in the social media and even in the highly respected newspapers: missing $20b found in an account in Zenith, President Jonathan returns tons of dollars to federation accounts, N2trn spent on election by President Jonathan, Okupe says Chibok girls will not be found.”
Source: Daily Trust