Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan (Public Affairs), this evening launched a strong verbal attack on Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary the Action Congress of Nigeria, for calling on Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola to prevent President Jonathan fromvisiting Lagos tomorrow.

Describing the call as “unfortunate and irresponsible,” Okupe said that “Lai Mohammed is obviously misguided and mischievous in his disposition,” adding: “It is difficult to understand or explain how he expects Governor Babatunde Fashola to control or obstruct the movement of President Jonathan, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

According to the presidential spokesman in a statement made available to News Express, “It is obvious that Alhaji Lai Mohammed does not have the least of understanding of the workings of government or official protocol. The insult to the president of the nation who is the symbol of our collective sovereignty as contained in his letter to Governor Fashola is obviously a product of a warped mind that is equally evil and unprogressived.”

Continuing, Okupe said: “We have always known that Alhaji Mohammed is not fit to be a national officer of a decent political party as evinced by the outbursts and vituperations that emit from his shallow mind.

“We know for a fact that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola is of higher breed with proper upbringing and will not descend to the level of debased political wretchedness to which Alhaji Mohammed belongs.

“We wish to state categorically that the President’s visit to Lagos cannot in any way affect the proceedings of the ACN convention or its proposed merger with other parties. Such thinking can only come from a mind intent on making mischief and raising false alarm as usual just in order to score cheap political points and heat up the polity unnecessarily.

“Nigerians must now know Alhaji Mohammed for what he is: a confusionist, scaremonger and a debased politician with a belly full of deceit, mischief and treachery.”