In the coming days, Doyin Okupe, the former director general of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council, will formerly join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Okupe, an ally of Peter Obi, had resigned his position shortly before the 2023 general elections over alleged corruption allegations.
According to Labour Party chieftain, Kenneth Okonkwo, Okupe joined the APC when he resigned 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 on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday.
It would be recalled that Okupe resigned as Obi’s campaign director-general in 2022 after a court found him guilty of money laundering.
Okupe, who referred to the Labour Party as a “special purpose vehicle” went on to resign as member of the Political 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 in December 2022.
However, Okonkwo, an ex-spokesman for Obi’s 2023 campaign said if the party had won the election, Okupe wouldn’t have remembered any “ideological differences”.
The actor and lawyer 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.
