The Labour Party is enmeshed in a fresh crisis over the list of the presidential campaign council released on Wednesday, OduNews reports.
OduNews reports that the former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe announced the 1,234 campaign council members during a press conference in Abuja.
The party has however dismissed the list raising concerns that it is sectional. Okupe was named Director-General of the PCC, while a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Mohammed Zarewa was named the council’s chairman. Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko were named secretary and chief spokesperson of the council respectively.
During the event, LP Chairman, Julius Abure, was represented by Secretary of the party, Umar Farouk. However, the National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Arambabi Abayomi, in a short message, said: “We are not involved in 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 LP now to announce himself as the DG? It’s an anomaly. Who announced the DG of Atiku? The party did it. When Tinubu unveiled his DG, the party did it. Where is Peter Obi? Okupe doesn’t know what he is doing. I want to be quoted. The DG ought to go to the Northeast or North-Central.
“We are not a sectional political party. Our presidential candidate is pan-Nigerian. How can we have a presidential candidate from the South and the Campaign DG is coming from the same South.”
Speaking during the unveiling in Abuja, Okupe boasted that Obi had at least 15 million voters ‘in the bag’ ahead of the presidential election.
Okupe noted that 80 per cent of the new voters were supporting the candidate. He added that about 60 per cent of Nigeria’s 38 million social media users are registered to vote, adding that 50 per cent of the figure is ‘Obidient.’
