Labour Party chieftain rejects Osuntokun as Okupe’s replacement, accuses nat’l chair of rascality, compromise

Anthony Iwuoma

The Labour Party (LP) may have been engulfed in crisis, as its National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, has rejected the newly-appointed Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Akin Osuntokun and called for his immediate resignation.

Osuntokun, a former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, was appointed to take over the office vacated by Dr. Doyin Okupe, following his conviction for money laundering by a Federal high Court in Abuja.

However, Arabambi, in a statement to newsmen, rejected Osuntokun’s appointment, saying he was a member of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and currently the party’s senatorial candidate in Ekiti State.

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“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,” Arabambi said.