Doyin Okupe, a former director general of the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential campaign council, has been let go by the Department of State Security Service (DSS).
Okupe was arrested by the DSS on Thursday morning at the Muritala Mohamed International Airport en route the UK.
He was detained and turned over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), according to Dr. Peter Afunanya, a spokesman for the DSS, who verified the arrest.
However, Okupe just now verified that he had been released from EFCC prison in a tweet.
He tweeted: “I was arrested & detained @ the MM int airport, Lagos this morning 12th Jan on my way to UK for medicals, yrs after my passport was withheld by the FHC Abuja. I just left the efcc office where snr officers in lagos& Abuja apologised to me for the error. OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD abi?”