Road infrastructure: Okupe accuses Osinbajo of propagating ‘absolute falsehood’

– Doyin Okupe accused Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of propagating “absolute falsehood”

– Osinbajo had earlier said that the federal government did not build a single road over the last 10 years

– Okupe described Osinbajo’s statement as a lie and an absolute falsehood

Doyin Okupe

The VP’s statement is unfortunate in that it was a wrong statement made in a wrong place and before a wrong audience.

Doyin Okupe, a former senior special assistant on public affairs to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, accused Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of propagating “absolute falsehood”.

Speaking at the retreat of pastors of the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos, Osinbajo said that the federal government did not build a single road over the last 10 years.

On Sunday, February 28, Okupe took to his Facebook page to refute the claim and express regret that someone like Osinbajo could have made such “blunder”.

“This is perhaps one of the most difficult posts I have made to date.

“Prof Yemi Osinbajo and I have a few things in common. He is a professional in politics like me. He is a practising Christian and a revered Pastor. I am a practising christian and an aspiring Evangelist. We both are alumni of Igbobi college, Yaba, Lagos. His younger brother and mine were classmates at Igbobi and are both pastors of the fountain of life church, Ilupeju, where I became grounded in Christianity under the mentorship of the celebrated and revered man of God, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya.

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“It was in this church and before a body of pastors undergoing a spiritual retreat that the Vice President went and said “that the federal government in the last 10 years have not constructed a single new road”. This statement is a lie and an absolute falsehood. Many people have said so. But this is not why I am writing this.

“My concern is the erroneous assumption that just because the VP is a Christian therefore every christian is APC. This why the VP’s statement is unfortunate in that it was a wrong statement made in a wrong place(church)
and before a wrong audience,” he wrote.

Okupe further noted that the church must be sensitive and mindful of the danger in bringing politics into the church.

“For Prof Osinbajo, if only he remembered the Igbobi college motto “omnes unum in domino” meaning “all are one in the Lord” he would not have committed such a blunder. Our God is God of APC, PDP, Labour etc,” he added.

However, Okupe noted that he still holds Osinbajo in very high esteem and is proud of his role in the administration.

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