Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, a South West sociopolitical group and advocate of power shift to the South East, yesterday, described the arrest of former Director General (DG) of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, as politically motivated and unwarranted.
Department of State Services had intercepted Okupe at Terminal 1 of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, following a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission .
According to the statement, “if anything at all, it is a confirmation that no innocent person will be safe again under a state of police authoritarianism whose personnel are majorly from one section of the country and lack of discipline has made them to be used for political vendetta as was displayed on Okupe at the airport.
On the arrest, Babalaye said: “The reason, according to source, is that he was asked to produce evidence that the Federal High Court Abuja had 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.” “The Commission was in the process of formally lifting the watch list before his interception and will expedite action in this regard.”
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