Okonkwo Tags Okupe Opportunist

Leading Labour Party (LP) figure Kenneth Okonkwo announced that Doyin Okupe had left the party following his resignation in December 2022 as the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign’s director general.

Okonkwo stated this during his appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.

The former spokesman for Obi’s 2023 campaign 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 verbalized it.”

Remember that in 2022, Okupe first resigned from his position as director general of Obi’s campaign after a judge found him guilty of money laundering. 

On January 8, 2024, Okupe subsequently announced his resignation from the Labour Party due to ideological differences.

In his resignation letter, Okupe wrote, “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.”

Okonkwo however reacted that if the party had won the election, Okupe wouldn’t have remembered any “ideological differences”.

He questioned which political party in Nigeria has a distinct philosophy. Okupe, who has “sampled all the parties” in the nation, had to consider how he will continue to live with his grandkids when he gets older, according to Okonkwo.

“Could it then be that you’re an opportunist because you said – and I’m talking about what he said – the only reason you entered was to go and contest the election. And the question is this: if he had gone into an election and won, would he have remembered ideological difference?

“That’s why you’re an opportunist – that’s why you’ve portrayed yourself as an opportunist,” Okonkwo added.