Nyako blasts Gulak, Okupe; says defection is final

Nyako blasts Gulak, Okupe; says
defection is final
on december 27, 2013 at 4:50 am in news
Gov. Nyako
BY Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State said,
yesterday, that his defection to All Progressives
Congress, APC, was final and that there was nothing
the Pre-sidency could do to truncate it.
The
governor, who spoke through his Director of Press
and Public Affairs, Mr. Ahmad Sajoh, accused two
aides of President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak
and Doyin Okupe of making inflam-matory
statements against him and warned them to steer
clear the affairs of his state.
The two aides of the President were said to have
warned the governor of the consequences of
defecting to APC and threatened to use the courts to
ensure that Nyako was dealt with.
But Nyako said both men displayed a high level of
ignorance about the political situation in his state
and that it tended to cast aspersion on the highest
office in the land because of their unbridled tongues.
Nyako said: “The good thing about Gulak’s
statement is that he displayed so much ignorance
about Adamawa State in the paucity of his
knowledge. When you have an ignorant opponent,
you are as good as having no opponent at all.
“How could a person like Gulak, who was
mentioning ethnic groups in Adamawa State, claim
that Gella my home town and Pakka Wilberforce,
Juta’s home town are also ethnic groups in
Adamawa State?
“How could such an ill-informed person pose any
threat politically? He does not even know the terrain
or the people he is talking of.
“The comfort of his political exile in Abuja and the
spoils of his office made it difficult for him to
appreciate the ethnic composition of his home state.
How then does he intend to mobilise them for
Jonathan’s 2015 project? Well, we wait to see.
“It is only by the misfortune of a captive Presidency
that a man who lost dismally in an election in the
FCT, and scored only two votes in the nomination
process in his home state will emerge the nation’s
adviser on politics.
“What politics does he know if he cannot advise
himself to make any political impact?
“Gulak cannot win even his unit in Gulak, Madagali
Local Government Area. Yet he is the one planning
how a President will emerge in 2015.
“And if he does not know the ethnic configuration of
Adamawa his home state, how will he work out the
political configuration of Nigeria as a nation?”
On Okupe, Nyako said it was unfortunate for
Jonathan to engage him as one of his media
advisers, since he is not in touch with the current
realities in Adamawa and Nigeria.
The governor said: “Okupe is as empty as his
boastful words, totally devoid of any substance or
values. It is unfortunate that people like Doyin
Okupe could be brought to Abuja from Lagos, where
they have lost all relevance, for the sole purpose of
insulting others who are seen as enemies of a
Presidency that has been blinded from the realities
on the political landscape.
“One could easily see the negative impact of the
likes of Gulak and Okupe at the corridors of power
in Nigeria. In the past they were playing the role of
court jesters, who were amusing the President.
“Today, they are playing a more negative and
dangerous role of ‘hate mongers’, raining insults on
real or imagined enemies, and masking all truth and
reality from the President, turning the Presidency
into an instrument of tyranny.”