By Moses Okorie
Dr. Doyin Okupe who was Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and later became Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan before serving as the Director-General for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has been confirmed dead on Friday morning at the age of 72.
According information available to NationsPride Media, Okupe was born on March 22, 1952, and was a co-founder of Royal Cross Medical Centre and was at a time the National Publicity Secretary of the now defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the aborted Third Republic.
He was once detained under the military regime of General Sani Abacha and subsequently disqualified from participating in United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) primaries.
The late former LP’s spokesman of late became the advocate of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration after he parted ways with the party and its former presidential candidate. Peter Obi.
He hailed from prominent Agbonmagbe family of Iperu-Remo in Ogun State.