Doyin Okupe, the Director General of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council in Ogun State, was ejected on Thursday for alleged non-financial membership, high-handedness, and financial recklessness.
Okupe was expelled, along with ten other members, for violating the party’s constitution.
Michael Ashade, the party’s state chairman, revealed this in Abeokuta, the state capital, claiming that the expelled members had allegedly violated the Labour Party constitution.
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Okupe ceased to be a party member, according to Ashade, who was flanked by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and State Secretary, Feyisola Michael, after failing to meet the essential constitutional standards for membership status.
Okupe, he added, has forfeited his membership in the party after failing to pay his membership dues for the last six months after joining, and is no longer fit and competent to continue acting as the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council.
According to Ashade, Okupe and ten others violated Article 9(3) sub(iii) and Article 9(3)xi of the LP constitution and, as a result, are no longer party members.
The party chairman also charged him of financial irresponsibility in relation to money authorized for the Ogun LP state on member mobilization for the Oyo State rally conducted last week in Ibadan.
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He said, “Okupe has polarised the party in Ogun State with his crops of PDP dissidents and political liabilities who are only using Labour Party to revive their not only irredeemable dead political and financial lives but has successfully stole all that is available in LP.
“Therefore, in line with article 19(3) of the Labour Party constitutional provision, we declare that Dr. Doyin Okupe, having failed in the payment of his membership dues for the last six months of joining the Party, has forfeited his membership of the Party and no longer fit and competent to continue to act as the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council.
“We hereby notify our National Chairman Bar Julius ABURE and Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, that its expedient to obey the constitution of Labour party by immediately appointing another DG for the PCC, and that should come from the North to reflect federal characters and political balance.
“We challenge Dr. Doyin Okupe to provide evidence of any payment in respect of membership dues prior to today into any bank account of the party.”
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Also speaking, Arabambi requested that Obi refrain from dealing with Okupe as the PCC DG.
He threatened that the state party will use all legal methods to force Okupe and others to resign.
Several attempts to acquire Okupe’s reaction failed because he did not answer several phone calls or respond to a text message sent to his phone number.
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