BH Attack As GEJ Won Election & Some People Are Angry About It - Okupe

                                                                                 Doyin Okupe on BBC's Hardtalk
A senior adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, was a guest on BBC's Hardtalk this morning where he spoke with Stephen Sackur about the increasing state of insurgency in Nigeria.The theme of the conversation was "Are Nigeria's leaders capable of rescuing their country?" taking into consideration recent kidnapping of the Chibok girls and multiple explosions.
Okupe also talk about the ongoing efforts to rescue over 200 girls who were kidnapped in April by Boko Haram. He defends the action taken by the Goodluck Jonathan in the aftermath of the kidnapping and says that, although the military knows the location of the girls, the rescue operation is difficult because they don't want to 'lose any of the girls'.
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Answering the question about why everyday dozens of bodies with signs of torture and brutality are being transferred from the military headquarters prison called Dubar and deposited at a hospital in Maiduguri, Doyin Okupe replied that the Nigerian Government and the military is suffering from an orchestrated plan to cause disaffection, alleging that people who are angry with the fact that Pres. Goodluck Jonathan won an election are doing everything within their power to fight his government.

"You do not understand the holistic problem of Nigeria. President Jonathan has committed an offense. His major offense is that he won an election when some people in Nigeria, very strong and powerful feel that he ought not to have won and power ought not to be where it is currently resident. So people want to take this power by all means, at all cost, playing all sorts of gimmicks and all and they have a lot of money and a lot of influence both within Nigeria and outside Nigeria," he said.

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                                     Stephen Sackur and Dr Doyin Okupe
Further, Okupe agreed that Boko Haram's increased activities in Northern Nigeria is as a result of high level of poverty, adding that this is because of prolonged neglect occasioned by past government.
"If you ask any objective Nigerian, they would tell you this is as a result of longstanding neglect by various governments, not the present administration because this government is only three years old," Okupe stated.
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