Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), have arrested the immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.
It was gathered that Okupe was arrested while on his way to London, the United Kingdom.
According to Vanguard, one of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, said the DSS asked him to provide court processes where he paid the fine option following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The DSS Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, who confirmed the arrest said the former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council was intercepted by the DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
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.”