Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday announced Mr. Akin Osuntokun, a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new Director General (DG) of his campaign council.
Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation in a letter addressed personally to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party last Tuesday, following a Federal High Court ruling in Abuja that convicted him of violating the Money Laundering Act.
Rising from a strategic meeting of the party, which had Obi, members of the National Working Committee and several political candidates of Labour Party in attendance, the LP National Chairman, Julius Abure announced Osuntokun as the new campaign DG.
Abure described the former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as a “worthy and trustworthy” replacement for Okupe.