Peter Obi picked Obasanjo’s ex-aide, Akin Osuntokun as replacement for Okupe
Akin Osuntokun, a former presidential aide, has been named the new Director-General (DG) of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).
As the director-general of the campaign council for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Doyin Okupe recently resigned. Osuntokun succeeds him.
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Ejesgist.ng gathered that Osuntokun was the favourite to succeed Okupe.
Osuntokun previously served as the campaign council’s Zonal Coordinator for the South.
Osuntokun, a former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), directed the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential campaign in 2011 and served as political adviser to former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
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On December 19, 2022, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja declared Okupe guilty of violating the Money Laundering Act by accepting more than N200 million in cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.
In counts 34, 35, 36, and 59, the court found Okupe guilty, and he was given a sentence of two years in prison with the possibility of a fine.
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Before the two joined the LP this year, Okupe was an ally of Obi’s from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Okupe later paid a N13 million fine and avoided going to jail.
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Later, Okupe, a former aide to Goodluck Jonathan, stepped down from his position as director-general of Obi’s campaigns.
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