The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it will remove the former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, from its watch-list following his arrest and eventual release by the Department of State Service (DSS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday.

A source at the EFCC confirmed that Okupe had been on the EFCC watch-list for about six years since 2016.

The source was reported to have said that Dr. Okupe is one of the individuals, groups, or organizations that required close surveillance, for legal reasons.

Confirming the report in an interview while reacting to OKUPE’s arrest by the DSS and his subsequent transfer to the EFFC, the anti-graft agency’s Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said the EFCC would take immediate action to remove the former Presidential aide from its watch-list.

It would be recalled that on December 19, 2022, the Labour Party chieftain was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for breaching the Money Laundering Act.