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The former Director General of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization, Doyin Okupe, has resigned from the Labour Party, LP. Okupe anchored his resignation on ideological differences that emerged after the 2023 elections. He explained that his lifelong alignment with right-wing and liberal democratic principles clashed with LP’s left-of-center ideology, making continued membership untenable. In a letter made available to journalists ...

A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, Doyin Okupe said President Bola Tinubu still has many rivers to cross following the removal of the fuel subsidy. Okupe stated this in a statement via official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday. The statement reads, “President Bola Tinubu actually hit the ground sprinting; showing much determination, zeal commitment and courage. He has ...

The former Director-General of the Peter Obi presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe, has urged the Senate to direct ministerial nominee, Nasir El-Rufai to write an undertaking before his confirmation. Okupe said El-Rufai should be made to sign an undertaking not to make comments on religion. He urged the senate to reconsider its decision to drop El-Rufai as a minister. Tweeting, Okupe ...

The spokesman for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, Kenneth Okonkwo has kicked against the conviction of the embattled Director General of the campaign, Doyin Okupe. It will be recalled that Okupe who recently resigned from his position as the DG of the Obi-Datti campaign on Tuesday was sentenced to two years imprisonment for receiving over N200 million cash ...

Relief has come for  the Director General of its Presidential Campaign, Dr. Doyin Okupe as the  National Secretariat of the Labour Party has nullified his purported suspension by the Ogun State chapter of the party. The party further declared the suspension of other party members by the State Executive Committee invalid and null. The latest development was disclosed by the ...

The crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party(LP) on has taken a dramatic dimension. On Thursday, the State Executive Council(SEC) expelled the Director-General of Peter Obi – Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe and 11 others for allegedly violating the party’s constitution. Briefing newsmen in Abeokuta, the state capital at the end of their meeting, Ogun ...

The Director-General of Labour Party, LP, Doyin Okupe, has lamented that some supporters of Peter Obi who is the e party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, are members of other parties. The former presidential spokesman  made this statement during the unveiling of the presidential campaign council of the Labour Party (LP), in Abuja yesterday. According to him, LP would would secure ...

Former presidential aide, Dr Doyin Okupe, has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. In a statement issued on Wednesday, he said that he would now support the candidacy of former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi. Speaking to newsmen during spress conference at the NUJ Secretariat, Iwe Iroyin, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday, saying it would be wrong for the ...

Former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, on Friday issued a warning to political parties ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonatha said a Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian ticket would not work in 2023. Speaking further in a tweet, he said another northern presidential candidate from any political party would not work in 2023. According to him, ...

A former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, an exhas warned that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will lose the 2023 presidential election if they present a candidate from the north. Okupe made this statement while speaking to journalists in Abuja on Saturday. Okupe claimed PDP’s zoning arrangement ended with the 2019 presidential election but that some people within the party are ...