Labour Party: Suspension Of Doyin Okupe is Unconstitutional – Umar Farouk

Labour Party National Secretary, Umar Farouk has stated that the suspension of Doyin Okupe is unconstitutional, and thus null and void.

BREAKING: “Suspension Of Doyin Okupe is unconstitutional and therefore it is null & void” – Umar Farouk, National Secretary Labour Party. pic.twitter.com/0U7XpwIt8h

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Doyin Okupe, the Director General of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council in Ogun State, was expelled on Thursday for alleged non-financial membership, high-handedness, and financial recklessness.

Okupe was expelled, along with ten other members, for violating the party’s constitution.

Michael Ashade, the party’s state chairman, revealed this in Abeokuta, the state capital, saying that the expelled members had allegedly violated the Labour Party constitution.

Okupe ceased to be a party member, according to Ashade, who was flanked by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and State Secretary, Feyisola Michael, after failing to meet the mandatory constitutional requirements for membership status.

Okupe, he said, has forfeited his membership in the party after failing to pay his membership dues for the last six months since joining, and is no longer fit and competent to continue acting as the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council.

According to Ashade, Okupe and ten others violated Article 9(3) sub(iii) and Article 9(3)xi of the LP constitution and, as a result, are no longer party members.