Doyin OKUPE

Biographical record

Title

Dr

Surname

OKUPE

First Name

Doyin

Gender

Male

Source of Publication

NIBC Who's Who (3rd Edition)

Date of Birth

22 March 1952

Status

Alive

State of Origin

Ogun

Father's Name

Chief Matthew Adekoya Okupe

Father's Status

N/A

Mother's Status

N/A

Marital Status

Married

Name of Spouse

Aduralere Okupe

Profession

Politician
Medical Practitioner

Education Level

Tertiary

Schools Attended with Dates

St Jude's School, Ebute- Metta, Lagos; Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, 1964-74; University of Ibadan, 1971-76

Previous Appointments

Medical Officer, General Hospital, Lagos, 1976-77; Medical Officer, General Hospital, Pankshin, Plateau State, 1977-78; Senior Medical Officer, St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, 1979; Senior Medical Officer, Julisam Clinic, Lagos, 1981-82; member, Hospital Management Committee, Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos. 1982; Managing Director, Royal Cross Hospital, Lagos, since 1983; Managing Director, Life Communications Limited, Publishers of Life Mirror (First Health Newspaper in Nigeria), since 1988; member, National Advisory Committee on AIDS; President (non- governmental), AIDS Committee on Education; appointed Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity,1999-

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

Yes

If "Yes", please state the party(ies) and offices you have held with dates

House of Representatives Candidate, defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), 1983; Deputy National Publicity Secretary, defunct Liberal Convention, 1988-89; National Publicity Secretary, National Republican Convention, 1991-93; member, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), 1998; Labour Party (2022)

Creative Work/Major Exhibitions

The Achievements Of The Shagari Administration, 1983

Hobbies

reading, writing

Other Relevant Information

Doyin Okupe is a medical doctor and a son of the late Chief Matthew Adekoya Okupe a banker. He is an indigene of Ogun State of Nigeria.

Okupe was the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to Nigeria?s former President Goodluck Jonathan. Before his appointment by former President Jonathan in the year 2012, Doyin Okupe was a spokesman for former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State in the year 2003.

Dr. Okupe, who was a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was actually the Special Adviser on Media to President Olusegun Obasanjo from the inception of that administration in the year 1999.

During the Johnathan?s administration, Doyin Okupe was also appointed a member of the publicity committee of the Goodluck Jonathan's Presidential campaign council in the year 2011.