{"id":383642,"date":"2021-08-13T17:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383642"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:23:09","slug":"ex-presidential-aide-okupe-identifies-self-as-ideal-presidential-candidate-of-former-military-tyrant-babangida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383642","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Presidential Aide, Okupe Identifies Self As Ideal Presidential Candidate Of Former Military Tyrant, Babangida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> <span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">A former presidential media aide, Dr Doyin Okupe has hinted that he is the most prepared suitable candidate in the country to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">He disclosed that the former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, in his recent interview with Arise News TV, was referring to him when submitting qualities of the next person to be the nation\u2019s leader.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/08\/Ex-Presidential-Aide-Okupe-Identifies-Self-As-Ideal-Presidential-Candidate-Of.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">Okupe said this on Friday morning when he appeared on a live television programme on Arise News TV.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">\u201cI believe when IBB was making that speech, he was talking about me. I haven\u2019t spoken with him in a long time, I agree with all his points,\u201d Okupe said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">The former dictator is blamed for the entrenched culture of corruption in the Nigerian establishment, though he claims corruption under subsequent governments is far worse than his regime\u2019s.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">\u201cI have started visualising a good Nigerian leader, a person who travels in this country and as a friend virtually everywhere he travels,\u201d Babangida told Arise TV in an exclusive interview days ago. \u201cHe knows at least one person that he can communicate with. A person who is very vast in economic and a good politician who should be able to talk to Nigerians.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">\u201cI have seen one or two or three already in their 60s,\u201d the former tyrant further said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">Okupe said the criteria laid out by Babangida fits his profile perfectly and that the ex-junta leader must have had him in mind while reeling out the qualities for the next Nigerian leader.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">\u201cI am part of the three individuals IBB was talking about. I am the most prepared person for the job,\u201d the ex-presidential spokesman boasted.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">Buttressing his point, the medical-doctor-turned-politician asserted that he is popular and has friends around the country and beyond.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.008px;\">\u201cThere is nowhere in the country I don\u2019t have contact,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former presidential media aide, Dr Doyin Okupe has hinted that he is the most prepared suitable candidate in the country to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. He disclosed that the former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, in his recent interview with Arise News TV, was referring to him when submitting qualities of the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5870],"class_list":["post-383642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-doyin-okupe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}