2023 Presidency: Okupe Vows To Defeat Tinubu, Says Ex-Governor A Difficult Opposition |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Former Aide to both former Presidents Goodluck  Jonathan  and Olusegun  Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has not hidden his ambition to Contest for the 2023 Presidency.

And not even the strongly rumoured interest of the All Progresssives Congress, APC, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu scares him. But he admits that Tinubu is his only obstacle, and poses a threat to his Presidential Ambition.

Acknowledging that the former Lagos State Governor is a major opposition, Okupe is however optimistic of victory.

Okupe also stressed that  he is the only politician from the South-West region that can defeat Tinubu, in the 2023 Presidential race.

There are strong indications that the APC National leader is eyeing the country’s number one seat but he has not declared interest yet. But different groups in the South an North have been championing the course, admonishing him to run for Presidency.

Okupe, in a series of tweets on Sunday, said Tinubu remains a formidable opponent but he can send him out of the the race.

“I believe I have a slight edge over him in that I understand national and Presidential politics more than him and in terms of intellectual resourcefulness we are at par; if I am not better.

“On my part, a great advantage is that I am the only Yoruba of note in the presidential race from the PDP,” Okupe said.

While speaking on what he believes could work against Tinubu in the presidential race, Okupe said the former governor has many antagonists in his party.

“Bola Tinubu is coming in from a wrong party where he has such powerful antagonists with the capacity to stop him. The flagrant excesses of his party to which he never reacted publicly especially with issues concerning the SouthWest have made him not to be favoured by some of his own people.

“The other misfortune is that though Bola Tinubu has spent his life and his huge resources on developing political powerful lieutenants who now occupy very high and influential offices, now at his own point of need his major challengers are virtually all from his stable.”