{"id":113684,"date":"2024-06-08T06:40:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=113684"},"modified":"2024-06-08T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T10:40:34","slug":"tinubu-best-among-all-presidential-candidates-in-2023-okupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/06\/08\/tinubu-best-among-all-presidential-candidates-in-2023-okupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Best Among All Presidential Candidates In 2023 – Okupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Director General of the Labor Party Presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe, has showered praises on President Bola Tinubu<\/a> as the best among all the candidates who contested the 2023 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York recalls that Tinubu had emerged winner of that election, with Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labor Party coming second and third respectively.<\/p>\n

Okupe, who was Peter Obi\u2019s campaign director in the early stages of the campaigns, said hindsight has provided him the opportunity to realize that Tinubu is the best for the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you, of all the people that actually ran for President in 2023, by the benefit of hindsight, Bola Tinubu is the best,\u201d Okupe said on Channels Television\u2019s\u00a0Politics Today<\/em>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen Peter Obi, I have been with Atiku Abubakar, I also knew Bola Tinubu many years ago. I have not seen him in the last 7 to 8 years, that is not the point but he is the best in terms of capability, commitment and knowledge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Okupe said Nigerians cannot judge the Tinubu administration like they judged other administrations because he came in after it seemed like governance was abandoned for 8 years.<\/p>\n

Read Also: <\/strong>Tinubu Condemns Wasteful Practice Of Shelving Projects<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Insisting that one year is too short to judge the current administration, Okupe said that if Nigerians will give Tinubu some time, he will do well.<\/p>\n

Asked if it is not a betrayal to Obi whom he campaigned for saying that Tinubu is the best candidate in 2023, Okupe disagreed.<\/p>\n

According to him, his support for Obi was borne out of the mutual belief they both had that a Southerner should be the president which led to their exit from the PDP.<\/p>\n

Okupe toured around the country with Obi soliciting votes ahead of the PDP primary. However, when it didn\u2019t work out in the PDP, both men left for the Labour Party where Okupe became the director-general for Obi\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

Okupe would later resign from his position following a judgement by the Federal High Court in Abuja which found him guilty of receiving over N200 million cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.<\/p>\n

He had in his resignation letter at the time, said it is better not to allow his personal interest to distract the campaign of Obi and that of the party, hence his decision to step aside.<\/p>\n

In January, he also resigned from the Labour Party citing ideological differences.<\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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