Labour Party has announced Mr Akin Osuntokun as the new Director General of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, LPPCC.
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Julius Abure who made the announcement in Abuja at the strategic meeting of the Labour Party where aspirants of the party across the country gathered to deliberate on the choice of polling unit agents said the party accepted the resignation of the former DG following the circumstances of his resignation.
Mr. Abure who made the announcement after the resignation of Dr Doyin Okype as the Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council.
The National Chairman of the Labour Party said the “resignation was regretted because we will be losing his wealth of experience, as a result of the circumstances surrounding the resignation”.
Mr. Abure also said that the party “didn’t have any choice but to accept the resignation as we said the obedient movements and that campaign are driven by integrity, dignity and transparency.”
He further said that “in as much as he (Dr. Doyi Okupe) regrets his resignation because we’ll be losing his weight of experience.”
He added that the party is “pleased to announce one of our comrades that is well known, also from the same geopolitical zone because the campaign council and the party offices are well structured along that line because we appreciate the fact that we must employ federal character as enshrined in the Constitution and all of that.”
He clearified that “we put all of this into consideration and have consulted widely. We have come to the inevitable conclusion to replace DG with Akin Osuntokun”
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