The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says he owes his arrangement as minister to President Muhammadu Buhari and nobody else.
In an announcement issued on Monday in Abuja, the minister said it was “laughable ” that anybody would try to assume acknowledgment for his appointment.
Mohammed was responding to an announcement by Dr Doyin Okupe the Special Adviser (Media) to the Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, in which he offered credit to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki for the pastor’s arrangement.
The clergyman said that the whole explanation by Okupe, “is nothing but fiction writing, for which he deserves a hall of infamy award (in the fiction writing segment).
“Not one of the claims he made in his statement is true.’’
Mohammed tested Okupe to make accessible to Nigerians any proof he may need to help his declaration that the President looked for the consent of Saraki to name him as pastor.
“We understand that Dr Okupe’s cheap attempt at mud-throwing is nothing but a proxy fight, rooted deeply in the politics of Kwara State.
“We are aware that Okupe’s boss is feeling the heat emanating from the `O To Ge’ (enough is enough) movement in Kwara State.
“And that even the strongest of men will become disoriented and disillusioned at losing the support of people who once venerated them to high heavens.
“But that is a self-inflicted wound for which Okupe’s boss, an acclaimed slave master, has no one but himself to blame,’’ Mohammed said.
The Minister said he was glad to lead the ‘O To Ge’ development that is set to at long last cut down the Berlin Wall of political authority in Kwara State and send Okupe’s manager into political obscurity.
He said the development will likewise free Okupe himself from only being his lord’s voice, so he can completely dedicate his opportunity to his newly discovered interest – fiction composing.