Peter Obi and I Didn’t Believe In Labour Party’s Principles – Doyin Okupe

Doyin Okupe, a former director general of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign, has asserted that Peter Obi, the party’s candidate, has never adhered to the party’s principles.

During an appearance on Tuesday, April 22, on Arise Television’s “The Morning Show,” Okupe asserted that the Labour Party was merely a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the election of president.

He said; “The LP for us — for Peter Obi and I — and those in the leadership of the movement… The party was a special purpose vehicle (SPV). I have never been a labour person, I have never operated on the left before but we needed a platform and this was the only platform readily available to us.

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“We thought that if we won the election… there are no fast and hard rules about ideologies. You can always find a shade between the left and the right. You can always move to the centre.

“We were hoping and praying that if we won, we would find a way to come to some consensus with the labour. Peter Obi is not a labour person. He is not a leftist person, he is a trader, he is a businessman just like me. I am a liberal democrat, I believe in liberal democracy, and I believe in free enterprise.

“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election.”