The controversy deepened after Joluwe released a viral video confirming that she was the complainant whose petition led to Olawumi’s arrest.
Mrs. Abimbola Olajumoke Olawumi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has regained her freedom after she was released by the Ekiti State Police Command on Thursday, hours after her arrest in Abuja sparked widespread controversy.
SaharaReporters had reported that Olawumi was seized by armed men shortly after leaving the Supreme Court in Abuja on Wednesday, prompting outrage among her supporters and associates, who initially alleged that she had been abducted by unidentified gunmen.
However, SaharaReporters later learnt that she had not been abducted by criminals but was taken into custody by armed security operatives, who transported her from Abuja to Ado-Ekiti, where she was detained, arraigned before a Magistrates’ Court by the Ekiti State Police Command, and subsequently released on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, Olawumi gave her own account of the incident, alleging that operatives of the Ekiti State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) forcefully arrested her outside the Supreme Court shortly after the final hearing of her suit against Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji and the APC.
