Obi not a labour person, LP was special vehicle for 2023 presidential poll — Okupe

“I have never been a labour person, I have never operated on
the left before but we needed a platform and this was the only platform readily
available to us.

“We thought that if we won the election… there are no fast
and hard rules about ideologies. You can always find a shade between the left
and the right. You can always move to the centre.

 “We were hoping and
praying that if we won we would find a way to come to some consensus with the
labour.

“Peter Obi is not a labour person. He is not a leftist
person, he is a trader, he is a businessman just like me. I am a liberal
democrat, I believe in liberal democracy, I believe in free enterprise.

“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my
membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election.”

Okupe added it was “unreasonable” for the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), his former party, to present a northerner as its candidate in the
buildup to the 2023 election.