Why I Cannot Support Peter Obi Again – Doyin Okupe

A former presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe, has revealed why he cannot support the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, again.

Naija News recalls that prior to the 2023 general election, Okupe was in the camp of Peter Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State.

While appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Monday, Okupe said they agreed that a Southern president must emerge and all eminent Yoruba supported Peter Obi but it is wrong for the ex-governor to bring down the people who supported him.

He said, “I cannot support Peter Obi again. The reason is because what we agreed was that a Southern President must emerge.

“Baba Adebanjo called me and said if a Southern President must emerge, which zone must it emerge from? And I said South East. Let’s support them.

“And all eminent Yoruba people supported you, why now bring us down publicly? It’s wrong.”

Meanwhile, Doyin Okupe, has said he can never denigrate the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.

Speaking on Monday as a guest on Channels TV Politics Today, Okupe said he is sentimentally attached to Obi, having been a part of his political rise, hence he can’t bring down what he laboured to build.

Speaking against his recent comment on a statement made by Peter Obi regarding the popular ’emi lokan’ slogan of President Bola Tinubu, Okupe denied attacking Obi, but said he has a responsibility to speak the truth on such matters.

He maintained that Obi got it wrong regarding his comment about Yoruba people as touching the emilokan slogan, adding that Tinubu made the statement as an appeal to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State to vote for him in the party convention.