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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.
Okupe, who stepped down from his role in the party in January citing ideological differences, elaborated that neither he nor Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate in the last year’s election, were fully aligned with the party’s ideologies.
“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.
He said,“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)..
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