Ebun Francis|
The campaign organisation of Senate president, Bukola Saraki has appointed Dr. Doyin Okukpe as the chairman of the media council for the organisation.
Mohammed Wakil, director general of the Saraki Presidential Campaign Organisation announced Okukpe’s appointment on Tuesday.
Wakil said in a statement said that Okupe will “work with other top professionals in the team to effectively communicate the campaign messages of Dr. Saraki to the people of Nigeria and the international community”.
The statement read, “Okupe, a medical doctor and politician, had served as the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the aborted Third Republic, Director of Communications of the Presidential campaigns of two former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan and later served as senior special assistant on Media and Public Affairs to both Presidents.”
Okupe worked with both President Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan before resigning his membership of the PDP last year.