Akin Osuntokun, a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been appointed as the new Director General of the campaign council of the Labour Party.
This was announced on Tuesday.
Mr Peter Obi is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election.
Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation in a letter last Tuesday following a Federal High Court ruling in Abuja that convicted him of violating the Money Laundering Act.
The letter was addressed personally to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
Earlier, Obi’s Media Aide, Emeka Obasi, has stated that the new helmsman to head the campaign council would be announced in 48 hours.
But rising from a strategic meeting of the party, which had Obi, members of the National Working Committee and several political candidates of Labour Party in attendance, the LP National Chairman, Julius Abure announced Osuntokun as the new campaign DG.
Abure described the former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria as a “worthy and trustworthy” replacement for Okupe.
Osuntokun became the South-West leader of the party after he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the LP in August 2022.