A top member of the Labour Party (LP) Kenneth Okonkwo has claimed that Doyin Okupe left the party when he resigned as the director-general of Peter Obi presidential campaign in December 2022.
Mr Okupe stepped down from Obi’s campaign after a court found him guilty of money laundering.
On January 8, 2024, he wrote to the LP national chairman Julius Abure, saying he was leaving the party due to ideological differences.
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Reacting to this on Thursday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Okonkwo said: “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, a movie star and ex-spokesman for Obi’s 2023 presidential campaign, said if the LP had won the election, Okupe wouldn’t have remembered ideological differences.
Okonkwo wondered which Nigerian political party has a clear ideology, teasing Okupe to instead spend more time with his grandchildren.
