A former presidential aide Doyin Okupe is dead. He was 72.  ,
Family sources confirmed his death to Channels Television on Friday. But details of circumstances leading to his demise are sketchy as of now.  ,
Okupe was in 2012 appointed as a Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He worked as the Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign for the 2023 election. He was instrumental to LP’s campaign but dumped the party owing to what he described as ideological differences.  ,
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Last year, the former presidential aide recalled his battle with cancer which he said led to weight loss.  ,
“It’s part in part, the first problem was cancer I had and the chemotherapy makes you lose appetite, you have nausea, and even as you sustain for several months, you lose weight”, Okupe said on an edition of Channels Television’s Political Paradigm.  ,
“When I started chemotherapy, I was 127kg, and then I came down to 97kg… the chemotherapy ended and I went back to 103kg”.
As a medical doctor, the former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worked as a health practitioner before venturing into politics.  ,
Source: Channels TV
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