Crisis In LP: Erstwhile Publicity Secretary Asks New Presidential Campaign DG To Resign
The recently appointed Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization, Prof. Akin Osuntokun, has been asked to quit by the Labour Party’s erstwhile acting Publicity Secretary, Dr. Abayomi Arabambi.
Recall how Doyin Okupe, the former director general of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organization, resigned from the position after being found guilty of money laundering by a Federal high court in Abuja.
Following Dr Doyin Okupe’s resignation as Campaign Director-General, the Obi-Datti Ahmed Campaign Organisation on Tuesday named Osuntokun, former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new DG of the Labour Party (LP) campaign organisation.
In a statement made accessible to reporters on Wednesday, Arabambi responded to Osuntokun’s appointment by opposing it because the professor is a member of the Zenith Labour Party ZLP.
He saidl “In my capacity as the National Publicity Secretary of Labour Party, I am opposing the announcement of Prof Akin Osuntokun as the DG Labour Party Campaign Organisation because at present, he is the Senatorial candidate of Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, Ekiti State and in the February 25, 2023, National Assembly election. The National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, by this treacherous act has compromised the victory of Labour Party and this political rascality will not stand.”
“I am therefore calling on Prof Akin Osuntokun to resign as the DG Labour Party campaign organisation with immediate effect or faces court action within the next five days,” he added
