{"id":79970,"date":"2023-01-12T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg"},"modified":"2023-01-12T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:41:17","slug":"dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg","title":{"rendered":"DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, Peter Obi\u2019s former campaign DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of State Security Services, DSS, has reportedly arrested Doyin Okupe, the erstwhile Director-General of the Peter Obi, Datti Presidential Campaign Council.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe was reportedly arrested on Thursday at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Thursday morning by one of his lawyers, Tolu Babaleye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information reaching me now is that Dr Doyin Okupe has been arrested at Lagos Airport by the DSS on his way to London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason, according to the 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 a fine to the knowledge of the whole world and was allowed to go home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Department of State Security Services, DSS, has reportedly arrested Doyin Okupe, the erstwhile Director-General of the Peter Obi, Datti Presidential Campaign Council. Okupe was reportedly arrested on Thursday at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. This was disclosed on Thursday morning by one of his lawyers, Tolu Babaleye. \u201cThe information reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":79969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,3513,119,254,222],"class_list":["post-79970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-doyin-okupe","tag-dss","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, Peter Obi\u2019s former campaign DG - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of State Security Services, DSS, has reportedly arrested Doyin Okupe, the erstwhile Director-General of t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, Peter Obi\u2019s former campaign DG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of State Security Services, DSS, has reportedly arrested Doyin Okupe, the erstwhile Director-General of t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-12T16:00:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-12T17:41:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673530260.13.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"955\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, Peter Obi\u2019s former campaign DG\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-12T16:00:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-12T17:41:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\"},\"wordCount\":145,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673530260.13.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Doyin Okupe\",\"DSS\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-arrests-doyin-okupe-peter-obis-former-campaign-dg\",\"name\":\"DSS arrests Doyin Okupe, Peter Obi\u2019s former campaign DG - 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