Doyin Okupe, former director-general of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign, says the party was just a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the presidential election.
Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, Okupe said he and
Peter Obi, LP presidential candidate in last year’s election, do not
necessarily subscribe to the ideologies of the party.
In January, Okupe resigned his membership of LP, citing
ideological differences.
The former presidential aide said his membership of the
party ended the moment Obi lost the 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),” he said.
“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.
“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.
“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my
membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election.”
Okupe added it was “unreasonable” for the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), his former party, to present a northerner as its candidate in the
buildup to the 2023 election.
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