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Doyin Okupe
9 Jan
Former spokesman President Obasanjo, Dr Doyin Okupe, has tendered an apology to the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr Mele Kyari, for his past criticism of the corporation’s leadership.
Doyin Okupe
27 Dec
A former spokesman and Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has described opponents of the proposed tax reform bills as enemies of the country, emphasising that the bills are designed to support the poor and drive national development.
Atiku
26 Dec
A former spokesman and ex-Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has stated that the South, and not the North, should produce the president in 2027. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos, Okupe argued that fairness demands that the South completes its…
Doyin Okupe
23 Dec
Former Director-General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said the party’s inability to build an enduring structure after the 2023 elections is responsible for the gale of defections from the party.
26 Nov
A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has insisted that the presidency will not return to the North in 2027, even if President Bola Tinubu fails to secure a second term. Okupe made this statement on Monday during an interview with Arise TV, while responding to calls for a Northern presidency in the upcoming electoral cycle.…
Doyin Okupe
5 Nov
Doyin Okupe, a former presidential spokesman under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed confidence that Nigerians will support President Bola Tinubu in his bid for a second term, enabling him to fulfil the maximum eight-year term allowed by the constitution. On a lighter note, the ex-aide also noted that T-Pain, a nickname former Vice President Atiku…
Doyin Okupe
3 Sep
Former Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Labour Party, Dr Doyin Okupe, has stated that his relationship with the party’s candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, ended immediately after President Bola Tinubu emerged.
Doyin Okupe
4 Aug
A former presidential spokeswoman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says President Bola Tinubu has not disappointed Nigerians in his address to the nation on the nationwide protests on Sunday. Okupe, a former Director-General of the Labour Party's (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, made this remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, while…
8 Jun 2024
A former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, has caused a wave of reactions and conspiracy theories on social media following his recent endorsement of President Bola Tinubu as the best candidate in the 2023 presidential election. Okupe, who once campaigned for Peter Obi of the Labour Party, stated that hindsight has shown him that Tinubu is…
Doyin Okupe
8 Jun 2024
The former Director-General of the Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, said all 36 state governors should be allowed to decide their minimum wage. Okupe said this on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, even as he faulted the National Minimum Wage Act, which mandates all governors to pay a uniform minimum wage to…
31 May 2024
The former Director General of the Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Labour Party, Doyin Okupe, claims that no individual, former president, or administration has ever tackled the challenges that President Bola Tinubu has faced. Okupe made the statement on Tuesday during Channels Television’s Political Paradigm interview, where he praised Tinubu's proactive approach to…
14 May 2024
Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola commended my bearing and youthful savvy. He told me that he believed that I had the capacity and the ability to mobilise support for him in no small way. My first assignment he placed me in the fundraising dinner committee

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