Obasanjo’s ally, Osuntokun, replaces Okupe as LP presidential campaign DG

A former helmsman at the News Agency of Nigeria, Akin Osuntokun, has been named as the new Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council.

Osuntokun, an ally of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, was announced on Tuesday.

Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation in a letter last week following his conviction by a Federal High Court in Abuja of violating the Money Laundering Act.

However, after a meeting of the party, which had Obi, members of the National Working Committee and several political candidates of LP in attendance, the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, announced Osuntokun as the new campaign DG.

Abure described Osuntokun as “worthy and trustworthy”.