In a shocking expose, Doyin Okupe, a former member of the Labour Party and close associate of Peter Obi the party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 General Election on Tuesday revealed that the party was merely a “special purpose vehicle” for their political ambitions.
Okupe, while speaking during an interview on Arise TV, stated that he and Obi, a businessman and trader, never truly identified with the Labour Party’s leftist ideology.
Hear him; “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, I believe in free enterprise.
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“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election”.
“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.
“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.”
This bombshell interview has sparked controversy and raised questions about the true intentions of Peter Obi and his associates during their time in the Labour Party.
Okupe clarified that his membership in the Labour Party expired after their electoral defeat, and he no longer considers himself a part of the party. He emphasized that he is not a social worker and never operated on the left, but rather used the party as a means to an end.
