Doyin
Okupe while speaking as a guest on a current affairs programme on STV this afternoon
said, the present government doesn't not have the backing of the media.
According to source, Okupe stated this while
responding to a question on why the president's media team focus more on
talking about the opposition than the achievements of the government .Excerpt of
the interview below......
"That is not
correct. This government has built 38 dams. I did a program me called four impactful
years. They were shown on television. We are not deceiving people. If I tell
you we have 24 airport in Nigeria, are they not verifiable? I can tell you all
the airports have been remodeled. Fact. Go to anywhere. Wherever you want to
go. They have been remodeled. If I tell you that the Benin-ore road used to be
a death trap. People used to spend 24 hours on the road, today day spend three
hours. If I tell you the Lagos-Ibadan express road was built in 1976 or
something like that and from that time or more than 30 years nobody did
anything. It is ...If people deliberately refuse to see and the media find a
way to underplay the achievements, we will keep trying, we will keep trying.
Our God will justify us. We don't have the media behind us but we have God
behind us"he said.
Asked how the
media can be captured by the opposition when they are the ones in government,
Okupe said
"Its not
like the opposition took over the media. The elements within the opposition and
the sentiments concerning the opposition had dominated the media prior to this
event of Jonathan coming into power. Tell me which media organization in
Nigeria where you can say that the government owns. Government doesn't own any
media. but the opposition has tremendous influence in the media. Its
unarguable. I don't want to go beyond that" he said
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