Akin Osuntokun, a former presidential adviser, has been named the new director general (DG) of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council.
As the director general of the campaign council for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Doyin Okupe recently resigned. Osuntokun succeeds him.
On December 19, 2022, Channels Television was the first to break the news that Oshuntokun was the favourite to succeed Okupe.
Osuntokun formerly 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 a 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 found Okupe guilty of accepting more than N200 million in payment from former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, citing a violation of the Money Laundering Act.
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.
Before the two joined the LP this year, Okupe was an ally of Obi’s from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Okupe later paid a N13 million fine and avoided going to jail.
Later, Okupe, a former aide to Goodluck Jonathan, stepped down from his position as director general of Obi’s campaigns.
