
Labour Party picks Okupe as interim vice-presidential candidate
Politics
By Christabel Ejenike
THE Labour Party has picked Doyin Okupe as their interim vice-presidential candidate, ahead of the 2023 general election as Peter Obi’s running mate. The party announced this development through a twitter post on June 17..
Okupe is the founder of Royal Cross Medical Centre and was the National Publicity Secretary of National Republican Convention, NRC. He was also a one-time gubernatorial aspirant in Ogun state under the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
In the tweet, the party mentioned that Okupe was picked as the vice-presidential candidate as a placeholder in order to beat the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the names of political parties presidential and vice-presidential candidates before the end of June 17th. This means that the party would change their vice-presidential candidate before the general election.
A later tweet by Ikechukwu Iruoma, which was retweeted through the Labour Party’s handle, disclosed that the party is working on a merger and a discussion is ongoing with NNPP, SDP, PRP, etc.
– Jun. 18 2022 @ 01:09 GMT | C.E
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