FOLASHADE KEHINDE
DOYIN Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, said his son, Bolu Doyin, would eventually be an instrument of God in the gay community.
He said, knowing his son’s tendencies, he made the greatest mistake of sending him to France, a very liberal society.
Okupe disclosed this in a special interview with VanguardLiveTV on Wednesday.
THE POINT had reported that the former Presidential spokesman had reacted to his son’s revelation of his gay status, in January, saying he had been aware of the situation for a while.
He said, at the time, that he foresaw a major challenge ahead, but that he was confident that with God, the whole saga would end up in praise.
Okupe, a Nigerian physician, had reacted, in a series of tweets, to a viral photo in which his son, Bolu, was wearing rainbow boxers with the inscription, “Yes, I am gay”.
Reacting to this development, in the VanguardLiveTV interview, Okupe said, “We’ve always known that Bolu was like that. He’s even much more than that. He’s incredible with what he does and capable of doing. All his other siblings are one but Bolu had designed his mind to never live in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately for me, his mother took him abroad very early. He did major parts of his secondary school in the United Kingdom. So, Bolu thinks he lives European (he’s my son) but his mind is European. I also know that he’s easily influenced by his environment.
“I know that for a fact because he came home one time for holiday, and this is the person that’s been questioning the Bible, but all of a sudden, he’s on fire in terms of scripture, having spent some months in Nigeria. His elder brother, who is a pastor now helped him spiritually during that time.”
He added, “I made a greatest mistake to send him to France because that’s an extremely liberal society. So, the family had known that Bolu had that tendency. The day I knew, I wept. I have gone past that. We’re just praying for him but I also know that God’s ways are not our ways, and He knows the beginning from the end.
“Mark my words, he (Bolu) is on sojourn to the gay community in order to be an instrument of God to that community eventually. That is what is going to happen by the grace of God.”
