He spoke in a statement on Monday while reacting to some online media reports on his statement regarding the 2027 presidential election.
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In a testimony share on Sunday, Okupe revealed that he is completely free from cancer after being first diagnosed with prostate cancer 16 years ago.
Okupe expressed the position in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
When I told the people about the future implications of the dangerous sectarian seed that the APC was planting in our politics by openly encouraging Muslim clerics in the North to preach in the mosques that a vote for former President Goodluck Jonathan was a vote for an “infidel” and when I pointed out the fact that all those that supported the Peoples Democratic Party from the North would eventually be subjected to violence and persecution and labelled as “traitors”, “heretics” and “unbelievers”, no one listened
“The inviolable truth is that the Nigerian economy, like the economy of other Nations has its challenges which the Jonathan administration has courageously and innovatively been tackling with measurable, obvious and clearly tangible positive results in the last two years
The statement reads: My attention has been drawn to a statement purportedly made by me on an interview programme aired on a Lagos Television station (TV CONTINENTAL) on Sunday 7th April, 2013 to the effect that the “Boko Haram sect is working according to the tenets of Islam…one thing is certain, Boko Haram will never be able to Islamize Nigeria and cannot convert President Jonathan from Christianity to Islam
“It is an undeniable fact that every responsible leadership, genuine stakeholder and patriot must be worried when a Nation spends about N1 Trillion, an equivalent of about 20% of the National Budget, on subsidy paid out to a few Companies and enjoyed in the main by very few elites, while the common man benefits only minimally
Okupe said the idea of a pardon shows that it was meant not for the innocent but for those who might have been found guilty of some offences and have either finished serving their sentences or in the process of serving those sentences