Jan. 11, 2024

…Okupe left LP when he resigned as Obi’s campaign DG

Labour Party (LP) chieftain and ex-spokesman for Obi’s 2023 campaign,  Kenneth Okonkwo says if the party had won Presidential election, Doyin Okupe wouldn’t have remembered any “ideological differences”.

The actor and lawyer who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday, wondered which of the party has a clear ideology in Nigeria.

Okonkwo said Okupe, who has “sampled all the parties” in the country should be thinking of how to stay with his grandchildren at his age.

speaking further he noted that Okupe left LP when he resigned as the Director General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign in December 2022.

“Immediately, he (Okupe) stepped down as the DG, I can say with every degree of responsibility that he constructively had left the party because I wasn’t aware of any other interaction he had with the party. I think he just verbalised it,” Okonkwo said .

Okupe first resigned as Obi’s campaign DG in 2022 after a court found him guilty of money laundering. He would later resign as a member of the Labour Party on January 8, 2024, citing ideological differences.

“You will recall that our flagbearer, Mr. Peter Obi, myself and others left the PDP abruptly and had to look for a Special Purpose Vehicle in which to contest the 2023 Presidential Elections,” Okupe wrote in his resignation letter.