The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the 1, 234 names released to spearhead the Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba-Ahmed Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) for the 2023 general election.
A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, was named the Director-General of the campaign council, while a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Mohammed Zarewa, was named as the councils chairman.
Also named are Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko as the Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the council respectively. The campaign council also has different directorates, headed by a director.
During the event, the chairman of the party, Julius Abure, was represented by the Secretary of the party, Umar Farouk.
However, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Comrade Arambabi Abayomi, in a short message, said: “We are not involved in Dr. Okupe’s mischievous political shenanigans. That is not the party’s programme. “He can’t be talking about our party, our party all the time. Which party? Is he the leader of the Labour Party now to announce himself as the DG? It’s an anomaly. Who announced the DG of Atiku? Atiku did it. When Tinubu announced his DG, the party did it. Where is Peter Obi? he queried.
Recall that Okupe had, while speaking during the unveiling of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council list in Abuja yesterday, boasted that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have at least 15 million voters in the bag” ahead of the presidential election next year.
Okupe alleged that 80 percent of the new voters were supporting the candidate of the Labour Party, noting that about 60 percent of Nigerias 38 million social media users are registered to vote, adding that 50 percent of the figures are “OBIdient”.
