{"id":1612,"date":"2024-01-08T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:47:57","slug":"labour-party-campaign-director-doyin-okupe-resigns-from-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/labour-party-campaign-director-doyin-okupe-resigns-from-labour-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party campaign director, Doyin Okupe Resigns From Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has officially resigned from the party. Okupe made this announcement in a letter released to Vanguard on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the letter, Okupe explained the circumstances leading to his decision, citing an ideological conflict between his rightist and Liberal Democrat principles and the left-of-center ideology of the Labour Party. He expressed gratitude to the party, especially the leadership, for providing a platform for him, Mr. Peter Obi, and others to contest the 2023 Presidential Elections after leaving the PDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okupe acknowledged the cordiality and respect accorded to him as the <strong>Director-General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization<\/strong>. Despite their efforts, he noted the election loss, making it challenging for him to remain in a party ideologically rooted on the left of the center, given his lifelong affiliation with rightist and Liberal Democrat principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This move follows Okupe\u2019s earlier withdrawal from the campaign of Peter Obi, the Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, in 2023. Okupe, aged 70, shared his resignation announcement via his well-known<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nnpo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ogunpe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1076\" style=\"width:266px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In concluding his resignation letter, Okupe thanked the party leadership, wished them success in future endeavors, and expressed his intention to continue his political activities with liberalism, sincerity, and freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has officially resigned from the party. Okupe made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcozigbo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}