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Labour Party Reveals How ‘Broke’ Doyin Okupe  Allegedly Embezzled Campaign Funds

The Labour Party in Ogun State has insisted that expelled member and Director-General, Doyin Okupe, was financially handicapped before joining the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

The party executives, Michael Ashade and Abayomi Arambambi, claimed on Saturday that Okupe allegedly went on to steal N100million campaign funds after joining the PCC.

Ashade, state party chairman, said they were levelling charges of “financial impropriety” against Okupe who until his expulsion, served as the PCC’s director general.

Arambabi said Okupe initially lobbied to be made the state party chairman on the basis of using the position to raise money for Obi’s presidential campaign.

“He came to ask us at the initial stage that we should give him state chairman so that he would be able to mobilise funds for the party,” asserted Arambabi, Ogun State’s Labour Party spokesperson, on Arise TV Saturday morning.

In response to questions about whether Okupe had actually given the Labour Party N4million, Arambabi revealed that the expelled member – who always complained about Obi’s tightfisted nature – said he also had no money to contribute to the party.

“Let’s be very categorical here: Dr Okupe does not have any N4million to spend on Labour Party,” said the Ogun State party spokesperson.

He challenged Okupe to “come here to tell us how much he gave to the 24 members of the state executive. He complained about Mr Obi, it was on the record, that he doesn’t give him money, so he has no money to give.”

The state’s spokesperson further disclosed that Okupe had not given the party a “kobo” in the past seven months.

“He has not committed his kobo to that party for seven months. It was when he started campaigning for Peter Obi that he came to us to say that he has some money to spend into the Labour Party,” the spokesperson said.

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