₦airaland Forum

Wife and son of Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, begged a Federal High Court in Abuja to tamper justice with mercy on Okupe’s sentencing.

Omolola and Adesunkanmi Okupe spoke as witnesses shortly after the court reconvened following the defendant’s conviction.

The court presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, had convicted Okupe of breaching the Money Laundering Act.

Justice Ojukwu, in a judgment, held that Okupe was found guilty of contravening Sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act, for accepting cash payments without going through a financial institution, in excess of the threshold allowed under the Act.

Okupe is the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party (LP).

Okupe was said to have received N240 million in cash from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retired).

Besides the wife and the son that testified to Okupe’s good character and honesty before the court, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife and former Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Idi Farouk, also gave their evidence and appealed for leniency.

The judge had, earlier, stood down proceedings for Okupe to exercise his right under Section 310 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) to call witnesses to testify about his character, before the court could proceed to pronounce sentence on the convict.

PrinceOfLagos:
Okupe committed this crime when he was still in PDP And Atiku was the vice president

Atiku should step down immediately

fuckJones:
peter obi was also the member of PDP, they should both step down

SLAP44:
Witch hunting

PrinceOfLagos:
Okupe committed this crime when he was still in PDP And Atiku was the vice president

Atiku should step down immediately

Cyberterror:
Arabambi cried about the looting going on in Labour party under the watchful eyes of Okupe and Obi but he was silenced and expelled from the party. Peter Obi is the same thief he was in APGA, PDP and now Labour party. Different rooms but the same bitch.


Reminder:
Peter Obi is a packaged fraudster
-Gov. Chukwuma Soludo

SLAP44:
Witch hunting

PrinceOfLagos:
Okupe committed this crime when he was still in PDP And Atiku was vice president under the umbrella of PDP

Atiku should step down immediately because PDP is a party of thieves

fuckJones:
peter obi was also the member of PDP, they should both step down