Okupe confirms nomination as Obi’s temporary running mate, hints at Labour Party’s coalition with NNPP, PRP

A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, said on Friday that the Labour Party has commenced talks with the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) on a coalition arrangement ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Okupe, who stated this when he featured in a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, also confirmed his nomination as the “standing” running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

He said: “We are of the opinion that the party alone cannot win the presidential race except it works with several other parties to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and beat the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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“I am not a dreamer, Labour Party alone cannot achieve this success that we are looking at, we need the NNPP, we need the Social Democratic Party, we need the PRP, we need the Labour Congress, we need everybody.

“Let me also remind you that the choosing of the vice presidential candidate is a process, an electoral process and it does not stop until the schedule ends.

“I’m standing in as the vice-presidential candidate of the party.

“Labour party has submitted my name as the VP of the party.”

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