{"id":331761,"date":"2024-07-20T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T10:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=331761"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T10:19:56","slug":"peter-obi-was-nowhere-when-i-started-politics-doyin-okupe-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/20\/peter-obi-was-nowhere-when-i-started-politics-doyin-okupe-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi was nowhere when I started politics, Doyin Okupe asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Obi was the vice-presidential candidate of Atiku Abubakar in 2019. He brought him to the national limelight. Because of his own ambition, which was correct and due, Obi left the party and contested against Atiku. If people said I betrayed Obi, what did Obi do to Atiku? It is not fair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A former director-general of the Labour Party presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe, has asserted that when\u00a0he ventured into politics in 1978, Peter Obi, the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, was not known.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe in a video that has gone viral, disclosed that\u00a0Obi\u2019s presidential aspiration forced him to contest against Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democracy Party\u2019s candidate, who he said brought him into national politics.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Peter\u00a0Obi, an ex-governor of Anambra defected from PDP to LP in the build up to the 2023 Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The former DG of the Obi\/Datti presidential campaign organization dismissed reports that he betrayed Obi, maintaining that he decided to withdraw his support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/18\/ondo-man-stabs-lawyer-helping-his-wife-file-for-divorce\/\">LP<\/a> presidential candidate because he was no longer interested in working with him.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThey said I betrayed Obi. No. How can I betray him? I started politics in 1978. Obi was nowhere else. My life and political destiny cannot be tied to Obi\u2019s ambition. I wish Obi well, but I am done with him. We wanted to achieve something, but we couldn\u2019t achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObi was the vice-presidential candidate of Atiku Abubakar in 2019. He brought him to the national limelight. Because of his own ambition, which was correct and due, Obi left the party and contested against Atiku. If people said I betrayed Obi, what did Obi do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/07\/save-nigeria-from-bad-governance-lukman-asks-atiku-obi-others-to-unite-against-apc\/\">Atiku<\/a>? It is not fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is Obi\u2019s interest in 2023 that made him go on a collision course against his former master. Obi was not my master; I was his supporter. If I supported him up to a point and decided to go back and be myself, how can that be an offence?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obi was the vice-presidential candidate of Atiku Abubakar in 2019. He brought him to the national limelight. Because of his own ambition, which was correct and due, Obi left the party and contested against Atiku. If people said I betrayed Obi, what did Obi do to Atiku? It is not fair. 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