Campaign DG: Seven Things To Know About Okupe’s Successor, Akin Osuntokun

Tuesday saw the appointment of Balogun Akin Osuntokun to the position of Director-General of the Labour Party’s presidential campaign council.

Osuntokun succeeded Dr. Doyin Okupe, who resigned last week after being sentenced to two years in prison for breaking the Money Laundering Act by the Federal High Court.

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Seven crucial details regarding the Osuntokun, Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council are listed below:

1. Akin Osuntokun, a political scientist, strategist, researcher, administrator, journalist, and writer from Nigeria, is 61 years old.

2. He also has extensive experience in political analysis, policy research and execution, and media advocacy.

3. He is a native of Ekiti State, which is located in Nigeria’s southwest. The New Labour campaign DP attended Christ’s School in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, as well as the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Oyo State, for his schooling.

4. Between 1999 to 2007, Osuntokun served as the former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s political advisor.

5. During the general elections of 2011, he was appointed director of the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential campaign.

6. From 2011 until 2015, he served as the News Agency of Nigeria’s (NAN) Managing Director.

7. Osuntokun was selected as the head of the Ooni caucus, which consists of 27 other people, by Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, in July 2021. He currently serves as Okemesi’s Balogun (war leader) and is an Ekiti native.