Posted on: 04:50 Mon, 29 Feb 2016



Former Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity to ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin
Okupe, on Sunday, described the
recent statement credited to vice
President, Yemi Osinbajo, that no
new road has been built by
government in the last ten years as
“a lie and an absolute falsehood.”

While expressing regrets that the
statement was made in a church,
Okupe, who stated this on his
Facebook page, said that the church
has a role to play in politics and
that Osinbajo was wrong in
assertion.

The former Presidential aide wrote
that: “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.”

“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.”

“The church must also 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. Having said this the VP
is someone I hold in very high
esteem and he knows this. I am also
proud of his role in this
administration.”