Reasons Why Ogun Labour Party Expelled Doyin Okupe, 10 Others

Reasons Why Ogun Labour Party Expelled Doyin Okupe, 10 Others

On Thursday, the Labour Party in Ogun State announced the expulsion of Dr. Doyin Okupe, Director General of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, and ten others over allegations of high-handedness, non-financial membership status, and financial recklessness.

Michael Ashade, the party’s State Chairman, made the announcement during a press conference in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.

According to Ashade, Okupe and others involved committed these violations of the party’s constitution.

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He claimed that Okupe did not pay his membership dues for six months and thus could not hold any position in the party.

The party chairman, who was flanked by the LP’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and State Secretary, Feyisola Michael, argued that Okupe was ineligible to continue as the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

He submitted that the affected party members violated Article 9(3) sub(iii) and Article 9(3)xi of the LP constitution and thus lost their party membership.

“Therefore in line with article 19(3) of the Labour Party constitutional provision, we declare that Dr Doyin Okupe, having failed in the payment of his membership dues for the last six months of joining the Party, has forfeited his membership of the Party and no longer fit and competent to continue to act as the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

“We hereby notify our National Chairman Bar Julius ABURE and Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, that it’s expedient to obey the constitution of the Labour Party by immediately appointing another DG for the PCC and that should come from the North to reflect Federal Characters and political Ballance

“We challenge Dr Doyin Okupe to provide evidence of any payment in respect of membership dues prior to today into any bank account of the Party.”

In his remarks, the National Publicity Secretary urged the party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to stop dealing with Okupe as his campaign’s DG.

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