The immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has left the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) had earlier handed him over to the EFCC after he arrested Okupe on Thursday morning at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, while on his way to London, United Kingdom.
The former presidential spokesman was billed to fly to London via Virgin Atlantic before the arrest.
Okupe described the arrest as an error.
The former presidential aide in a tweet after his release stated that senior officers of the EFCC had apologised to him over the arrest.
He wrote: “I was arrested and detained at the MM international airport, Lagos this morning 12th Jan on my way to UK for medicals… I have just left the EFCC office where senior officers in Lagos, and Abuja apologised to me for the error. OCCUPATIONAL Hazard abi?”
Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, had earlier confirmed the handing over of Okupe to the EFCC.
“Doyin Okupe was intercepted by DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC. He has long been handed over to the commission which requested the action,” Afunanya said.
Okupe quit as Director General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council after he was convicted by the court.
One of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, in a Facebook said: “The reason according to the source is that he was asked to produce evidence that the Federal High Court Abuja has freed him from the case in which he was convicted and paid a fine to the knowledge of the whole world and was allowed to go home.
“When will this harassment stop? Who is after Dr Okupe? As of today, the man has no case to answer, I hereby demand that the DSS should release my client immediately as this is a violation of his freedom of movement, right to liberty and dignity as a human person. This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing.”
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