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Dr. Doyin Okupe, a former Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation and erstwhile Labour Party’s (LP) chieftain, says the party’s inability to build an enduring structure after the 2023 elections is responsible for the gale of defections from the party.

Okupe made the statement in an interview in Lagos on Sunday.

It will be recalled that no fewer than six LP lawmakers recently dumped the party on the floor of the House of Representatives for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The defected lawmakers include Rep. Tochukwu Chinedu Okere (Imo), Rep. Donatus Matthew (Kaduna), Rep. Akiba Bassey (Cross River), and Rep. Esosa Iyawe (Edo).

Also, a great number of ordinary of LP have also dumped the party for the APC and PDP lately.

Okupe noted that the mass defections from LP were expected, as elected would not stay in a party where the future is uncertain.

The former LP chieftain said those leaving the party knew they had to move for political relevance and survival.

“The Labour Party was one of those common parties that existed mainly for those who could not get tickets in the major parties to come and find expression.

“That is how we also got there. Our presence in the Labour Party then boosted the fortune of Labour Party.

“But what was important and which was essentially neglected by the leadership of the Labour Party and the presidential candidate was political structure.

“So, those who are in the National Assembly (under LP platform) know that they are on their last card.

“Even if they cannot return, they need to use their opportunity right now to align with one or two of the major parties and become somebody.

“So, that is why you are seeing all this gale of defections, and it’s not going to stop,” he said.

Okupe, a former presidential spokesman, said that lawmakers elected under the platform of the Labour Party knew that the situation that brought them would be different in 2027.

He added: “Those who came on the popularity of the Obedient Movement know, for a fact, that they would not return because the circumstances are different.

“The situation has become different. What happened in the South West is not going to happen in 2027. I can assure you. It’s not going to happen.

“People want political success tomorrow, but LP is not ready to build. They are not ready to build and are not ready to invest in structures, so people will leave,” he said.

According to him, it is also very possible that Obi, the 2023 LP’s presidential candidate, dumps the party, considering his meetings with some opposition leaders recently.

“Obi was with Atiku Abubakar in Adamawa recently. So, what does that tell you? That tells you that all options are open. The followers in the Labour Party are not blind,” he said.

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Okupe is talking small sense sha

I'm still trying to figure out how a party with only 1 Governor out of 36 States and FCT can be claiming they won 2023 Presidential election.. una be wetey o.

Okupe should stop stressing himself.. no vacancy in Aso rock till 2031.

People who should be in jail for fraud are now making noide

Elu P was a Special Purpose Vehicle to contest the 2023 presidential elections.

~ Doyin Okupe

Where is the lie?

Once bitten, twice shy

So many times bitten, na infinite shyness

EFCC really dealt with Doyin Okupe.

The defections in LP is as a result of greed and nothing more. The average Nigerian politician fights for his pocket and his pocket alone.

Nigeria political matters don tire person

My chief, I sent a pm abeg I go like make we rub monds

Nazgul:
.

Anyhow sha, the Agulu fraud won’t ever make it..

Damnnn niggar

Obi my niggar

2027 will come as a shock to many, I SAID IT FIRST

Whichever party obi goes, Nigerians will go with him.

Obi owes SW. He'll win SW like he did before

kettykings:
People who should be in jail for fraud are now making noide

but obi should b in paradise abi cos he's an angel?

Tinubu na bastard.

how nobody from that side is not discussing the hunger and death the agbero chairman brought upon the country is what am looking at.i keep saying that man uses spell once you ,your reasoning cells seize to function.they are all discussing about Peter obi while the country keeps moving backward with a very high speed

Except those people in west are core zom with ddddd brain…. ..
…. Then they can stick with APC and Tinubu… they rest of the country has already moved ahead

Let they Yoruba O yes keep giving themselves hope

Power to the people

PDP

North must complete its democratic turn.


Yoruba will say.. I’m a southerner .. but will Tinubu instead of power going north.. who cares

Nigerians want better Nigeria .. without black December on too common rice .. Food .. maybe next year … Nigerians and Nigeria will turn cannibals ..

God forbid Tinubu!!!

helinues:


Once bitten, twice shy

So many times bitten, na infinite shyness

yarimo no tell you I have been asking of you.nawa for you.you just enter you no salute men.well hope you are rounding up your tenure.yarimo takes over from Jan 1.hope the money you collected from the youth empowerment go do for handing over ceremony

Allmyheart:
Okupe is talking small sense sha

Emotion aside, you can't buy experience. Fantasy can come true but until then, fantasy is not reality.

flokii:
I'm still trying to figure out how a party with only 1 Governor out of 36 States and FCT can be claiming they won 2023 Presidential election.. una be wetey o.

Okupe should stop stressing himself.. no vacancy in Aso rock till 2031.

Try to get sense, presidential election is different from state government election. In a sane country where election is free and fair, independent candidate with no party have won presidential elections in some countries where people’s vote count. People vote individual not party as it is done in Nigeria.

flokii:
I'm still trying to figure out how a party with only 1 Governor out of 36 States and FCT can be claiming they won 2023 Presidential election.. una be wetey o.

Okupe should stop stressing himself.. no vacancy in Aso rock till 2031.

If the governorship election was conducted the same day as presidential election, Sanwo Olu could’ve possibly lost his seat. So stop bragging

helinues:


Once bitten, twice shy

So many times bitten, na infinite shyness

Oga, rest! Tinubu cannot beat Peter Obi in Lagos in a free and fair election. The only way Tinubu can do that is to deploy his thugs and get local chiefs (bales) to disrupt elections.

The only assignment they gave this man is to become Obi's monitoring spirit.

Anyone who voted Obi in 2023 will vote him again in 2027

But half of the people who voted Tinubu in 2023 are now all hungry and will not vote him in 2027.

The only thing that can change this is Rigging

Obi will soon announce his defection to APC

Nazgul:
The defections in LP is as a result of greed and nothing more. The average Nigerian politician fights for his pocket and his pocket alone.

Peter Obi is an average Nigerian politician.

flokii:
I'm still trying to figure out how a party with only 1 Governor out of 36 States and FCT can be claiming they won 2023 Presidential election.. una be wetey o.

Okupe should stop stressing himself.. no vacancy in Aso rock till 2031.

Truly common sense is not common.

People should tell this parrot that a mega party, which will unseat his paymaster is coming. Which south west is he talking about? Was it his effort that gave obi those votes in lagos and other parts of the region? Those who sacked him from the LP did a good job. They had seen it coming. He'd have been worse than baba apapa, that mole in the party. He stole millions of our money as labour party chieftain, which led to his sack. Maybe he was thinking he's still in the pdp where corruption isn't stealing when those monies were missing.

I when this parrot said pdp would rule for 50 years hahaha

Nas Bascad talk be dat o