“Peter Obi Not a Labour Party Person’, Okupe, Discloses Reason For  LP Choice

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Doyin Okupe, former director-general (DG) of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign in 2023, has said the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, never believed in the ideologies of the party.


According to Okupe, the LP was just a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the 2023 presidential election. Okupe said Obi never believed in the ideologies of the Labour  Okupe spoke while featuring in a television programme  on Tuesday.



He said: “The LP for us — for Peter Obi and I — and those in the leadership of the movement… The party was a special purpose vehicle (SPV). “I have never been a labour person, I have never operated on the left before but we needed a platform and this was the only platform readily available to us. “Peter Obi is not a labour person. He is not a leftist person, he is a trader, he is a businessman just like me.”

In January, Okupe resigned his membership in the LP. Okupe explained that his lifelong alignment with right-wing and liberal democratic principles clashed with Labour’s left-of-centre ideology, making his continued membership difficult.


The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member noted that they contested the election on the LP platform and lost.


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