The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed 59 charges against a former Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe. According to the Guardian report states that the charges bordered on alleged fraud, and arms money he received from Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). Sources disclosed yesterday…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of its chieftain, Dr Doyin Okupe, currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the Party described Dr…
One of the spokesmen of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe has been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has for alleged hate speech and cyberstalking. Okupe, who is a former Spokesman for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was summoned by officials of the Commission who paid a visit to his Ilupeju home…
Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has joined the Accord Party. Okupe recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where he cited the ‘periods of long introspection’ and the current crisis in the party as the reason for his decision then. In a statement issued…
SSA to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe took to his Facebook to reveal he is back in good terms with former President Olusegun Obasanjo who he fell out with when he started working for Jonathan. He said he met with the former president this past weekend and fell on his feet to beg for…
The Nigerian presidency has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo, describing his rating of President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance as below average as untrue and misleading. The former president had spoken last weekend in Abeokuta while addressing book writers as part of activities marking the Ake Arts and Book Festival. “I rate this current administration below average,”…
The Presidency Tuesday responded to remarks by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the security situation in the country, saying some of his past utterances contributed to the escalation of insurgent activities in the North. But in a swift response, some supporters of Mr. Abubakar, under the aegis of Turaki Vanguard, condemned the Presidency for…
The Presidency on Wednesday in Abuja advised supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan not to worry about the declaration by some opposition figures to contest the 2015 presidential election. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, who was speaking in an interview with State House correspondents, described the opposition aspirants as…
Doyin Okupe, an aide to President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, was one of the masterminds of the controversial #BringBackJonathanIn2015 hashtag which the President disowned yesterday, reports Premium Times. Mr. Jonathan had earlier today ordered the removal of banners and billboards bearing messages containing the hashtag adapted from the hugely popular #BringBackOurGirls campaign. It is not…
Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe CNN’s Isha Sesay spoke to the senior special assistant to Nigerian president -Dr. Doyin Okupe, on President’s Goodluck Jonathan called off visit to Chibok in BornoState which was scheduled for yesterday (16th May 2014) where more than 200 school girls were abducted.…