Doyin Okupe’s conviction can’t stop me, says Obi

Despite the sentencing of the Director-General of his campaign, Dr. Doyin Okupe, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, said he remained focused in becoming Nigeria’s next president.
The LP standard bearer reacted to the conviction of Dr. Okupe during a visit to the local council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Akwa Ibom State.

He spoke on the heels of a promise by the LP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) to take a position that will be guided by the value of law

Obi told reporters in Uyo: “I am hearing about it(the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the courts and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralize me.

“Today, when I arrived in Akwa Ibom, somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that and I said to him that nothing demoralises me.

“In my life, I have never stayed where they dropped me. Otherwise, I would have been where they dropped me before. This election, if they like let them do anything about people who are around me. I will get there”.

The Head of Media, Peter Obi PCC Diran Onifade, said the council’s position to the sentencing of its director-general will be guided by the rule of law.

Onifade told The Nation in a chat: “Whatever the court says will be done. We are law-abiding and we believe in the rule of law. We believe in the Nigerian judicial system. We believe in the rule of law as a foundation to the kind of change we are hoping to bring to Nigeria. Whatever the court requires will be done, the steps that we will take will be guided by the law.

“The campaign will be coming up with its own position and whatever position the campaign takes will be guided by the law because we are a law abiding organisation. We believe in the rule of law as a foundation we want to make in Nigeria.”