The anti-graft agency also said it was in the process of formally lifting the watch list on Okupe before his interception by the secret police.
The Commission, however, said it will expedite action and remove the Labour Party chieftain from its watch list.
The DSS yesterday announced the arrest of Okupe at the Lagos airport while on his way to London
The secret police also said the Labour Party chieftain’s arrest was at the instance of EFCC.
Meanwhile; the immediate-past Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, says his re-arrest by the Department of State Service on the request of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, was erroneous and should not have happened.
Okupe who was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport today said his passport had long been withheld by the Federal High Court Abuja even before finding him guilty of violating sections of the Money Laundering Act that attracted two and a half years imprisonment.
The former aide to Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan added that the officers of the EFCC in Lagos and Abuja have apologized for the error in his arrest.
