{"id":93213,"date":"2025-03-07T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93213"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:02:51","slug":"doyin-okupe-passes-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93213","title":{"rendered":"Doyin Okupe passes at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former presidential aide Doyin Okupe is dead. He was 72.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Family sources confirmed his death to Channels Television on Friday. Okupe died in the early hours of Friday. He hailed from Ogun State.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his tribute to the late Okupe, the Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun described the medical doctor\u2019s death as a \u201cpersonal loss\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReceiving the news of the passing of my elder brother, Dr. Doyin Okupe has left me with a profound sense of personal loss, especially coming so soon after the transition of the Alaperu of Iperu Remo, Oba Adeleke Idowu-Basibo Without a doubt, Dr. Okupe\u2019s departure leaves a void that will not be easily filled,\u201d the governor said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond his political and professional engagements, Dr. Okupe was an affable, easy-going, and principled individual who, despite never flaunting his credentials, played a significant role in Nigeria\u2019s resistance to military rule. Like many other democracy advocates, he endured detention and persecution under military regimes, standing firm in his convictions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He condoled the Okupes over the incident and prayed that the \u201cAlmighty God grants his family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, Okupe opened up on his\u00a0battle with cancer\u00a0which he said led to weight loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d Okupe said on an edition of Channels Television\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Political Paradigm.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started chemotherapy, I was 127kg, and then I came down to 97kg\u2026 the chemotherapy ended and I went back to 103kg.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a medical doctor, the former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worked as a health practitioner before venturing into politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, former President Goodluck appointed him as a Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He worked as the Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign for the 2023 election. He was instrumental to LP\u2019s campaign in that poll but dumped the party owing to what he described as ideological differences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Okupe was born in Iperu, Ogun State, and attended St Jude\u2019s School and Igbobi College both in Lagos State. He thereafter left for the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, to study medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf By <\/span>Channels Television.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former presidential aide Doyin Okupe is dead. He was 72.\u00a0 Family sources confirmed his death to Channels Television on Friday. Okupe died in the early hours of Friday. He hailed from Ogun State.\u00a0 In his tribute to the late Okupe, the Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun described the medical doctor\u2019s death as a \u201cpersonal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":93214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5781],"tags":[5194,1753,4916],"class_list":["post-93213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-obituary","tag-cancer","tag-dead","tag-okupe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}