The former Director-General of Obi-Datti Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has stated that the last time Nigerians has anybody close to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was the late Nationalist, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Vanguard reported that Chief Doyin Okupe, a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party stated this in an exclusive interview.
Doyin Okupe said; “I’ve had opportunities to sit with Bola Tinubu for hours unending. And he has impressed me, not only as a politician, but as a technocrat, a man capable of deep thinking. He has developmental ideologies and policies at his fingertips”
The former presidential aide added; “The last time we had anybody close to him (President Bola Ahmed Tinubu) was Obafemi Awolowo”
He stated further; “Awolowo was a very serious-minded politician, but who had ideas of public policies that would benefit the masses. That is what Bola Tinubu is today. Bola Tinubu, you know, in the Villa, we have a reformer, a president who is a reformer.”
He noted; “I’ve heard some people saying that Bola Tinubu came to the office without a plan, he has no clue, that is balderdash, that is nonsense. I have worked with two past presidents. I have studied other presidents closely from a very close point.”
The recent statement by the former Director-General of Obi-Datti Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe which was shared by Vanguard News on its verified Twitter page has generated a lot of reactions from many Nigerians on the social media platform.