Chief Doyin Okupe the Director General of Peter Obi Presidential campaign Organization has resigned from the post following his conviction by a Federal High Court on Monday.
In a letter on Tuesday to the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate Peter Obi, the former Campaign DG said he stepped aside to pursue his case and not to become a cause of distraction to a campaign he has invested so much in.
Mr Doyin Okupe, who served former President Goodluck Jonathan as Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media on Monday evening paid the sum of N13 million as alternative fine for the 52-year jail term bagged for N240 million money laundering offence.
Justuce Ijeoma Ojukwu, had in a judgment same Monday found Okupe guilty in 26 out of the 59 counts preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for being in possession of cash over N5m threshold.