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2023: Peter Obi and I never subscribed to the ideals of Labour Party – Doyin Okupe
Remember that Okupe left the Labour Party in January, citing ideological disagreements as his reason?
Doyin Okupe, a former director general of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign, claimed that neither he nor Peter Obi, the party’s nominee, ever held the party’s doctrines to be true.
In an interview with Arise Television, Okupe made this claim.
Okupe asserts that the Labour Party served only as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) in the presidential contest.
Remember that Okupe left the Labour Party in January, citing ideological disagreements as his reason?
Okupe claimed that as soon as Obi lost the election, he ceased to be a party member.
“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.
“We thought that if we won the election… there are no fast and hard rules about ideologies. You can always find a shade between the left and the right. You can always move to the centre.
“We were hoping and praying that if we won we would find a way to come to some consensus with the labour.
“Peter Obi is not a labour person. He is not a leftist person, he is a trader, he is a businessman just like me. I am a liberal democrat, I believe in liberal democracy, I believe in free enterprise.
“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election.”
The former presidential aide said it was “unreasonable” for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to present a northerner as its candidate in the buildup to the 2023 election.
