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| Mr. Doyin Okupe - Labour Party Presidential Candidate Campaign DG |
The campaign director-general for Mr.
Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Doyin
Okupe, has quit.
In a letter to the LP presidential
candidate on Tuesday, Okupe stated that he had decided to step aside rather
than risk having his personal interests interfere with Obi's and the party's
campaigns.
“Dear Peter, you will recall that
I briefed you yesterday about my travails in seeking justice and clearing my
name using the Nigerian Legal System to pursue same,” the letter read in part.
“I have invested too much in your
campaign to allow my personal travails to become a source of distraction.
“In the circumstances, I have
opted to step aside and plead that you appoint a new Campaign DG who can
continue the assignment with zero distractions. God bless you and family.”
Following
a Federal High Court ruling in Abuja that found Okupe guilty of accepting more
than N200 million in payment from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo
Dasuki, Okupe resigned from his position.
In
her decision on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu found that Okupe's behavior, who
is the first defendant in the lawsuit brought by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), had broken the Money Laundering Act.
The
court consequently held that Okupe was guilty in counts 34, 35, 36, and 59.
Okupe
resorted to Twitter shortly after being found guilty on Monday to complain
about his legal troubles and his "enemies." “God is not man. The enemies have tried in so many ways but
kept on failing. Victory is of God,” he wrote.
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