Adedoyin Ajibike Okupe, better known as Doyin Okupe, was a Nigerian physician and politician who co-founded Royal Cross Medical Centre and was the National Publicity Secretary of National Republican Convention.
15 Facts About Doyin Okupe
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Doyin Okupe was once detained under General Sani Abacha, and subsequently disqualified from participating in United Nigeria Congress Party primaries; later on, he was a governorship aspirant of the People's Democratic Party in Ogun State.
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Doyin Okupe's brothers were Kunle Okupe, Owo Okupe, Wemi Okupe and Larry Okupe, and his sisters are Aina Okanlawon and Bisola Ayeni.
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Doyin Okupe attended St Jude's School in Ebute Metta, Lagos, Igbobi College in Yaba, Lagos and the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Oyo State.
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Doyin Okupe worked for some years for government and private hospitals, including St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, before establishing the Royal Cross Medical Centre in Obalende, Lagos, along with his colleagues, Seyi Roberts and Ladi Okuboyejo.
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Doyin Okupe was the Managing Director of Royal Cross Medical Centre.
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Doyin Okupe was once a publisher of a health newspaper called Life Mirror.
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Doyin Okupe was one of the representatives of the NRC that observed the collation of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election results at the headquarters of the National Electoral Commission.
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At the advent of the current Fourth Nigerian Republic, Doyin Okupe was appointed Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Doyin Okupe was publicist at various times to Nigerian presidential aspirants of the PDP, including President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Goodluck Jonathan, Bukola Saraki and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
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Doyin Okupe subsequently returned to the PDP, and became a spokesman of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate for president in the 2019 Nigerian presidential election.
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Doyin Okupe joined the Labour Party ahead of 2023 Nigerian general election and stood in as the running mate and vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party until a substantive candidate was picked.
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Doyin Okupe was married to Aduralere Doyin Okupe, with whom he had two children, Ditan and Bolu.
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In January 2021, his other son, Bolu Doyin Okupe, based in Paris, came out as gay on his Instagram page.
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Doyin Okupe died after a long battle with cancer at a hospital in Lagos, on 7 March 2025, at the age of 72.