A former presidential spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and former Director-General of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign is dead.
Okupe’s death was confirmed on Friday morning.
The prominent Nigerian politician passed away at the age of 72.
The physician turned politician served as Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Doyin 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.
Doyin Okupe was in 2022 appointed as the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign for the 2023 election.
He was, however, forced to step down following a court conviction over alleged money laundering.
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.
Doyin Okupe was hospitalized in 2023 with prostate cancer and was flown to Israel for treatment.
He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer 16 years ago and later developed sarcoma in his right shoulder.
Sources close to the family said Okupe was critically ill in the weeks leading up to his demise.
