The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe on Thursday morning.
He was picked up at Lagos’ Murtala Mohammed Airport.
One of his lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, revealed this on Facebook this morning.
Okupe was said to be on his way to London.
He claimed that the DSS asked him to provide court processes in which he paid the fine option following his conviction for money laundering by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The lawyer demanded that his client be released immediately.
“The reason according to 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 fine to the knowledge of the whole world and was allowed to go home.”
Confirming the arrest, the DSS spokesperson, Dr. Peter Afunanya, said: “Doyin Okupe was intercepted by the 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 for the action. Okupe was billed to fly to London via Virgin Atlantic.”