"Please let my wife go, she has heart disease & high BP": Obanikoro reacts to the arrest of his wife

Embattled former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has
reacted to the arrest of his wife,
Alhaja Moroophat, by officials of the
Department of State Security Service. He said:

“We are saddened by the fact that the media was awash with false and
conflicting information about
the invitation of Senator
Obanikoro’s wife. Ordinarily, we considered ignoring these concocted lies but for the sake of the discerning and right thinking public, hence the need to straighten
matters.

“First, Alhaja Moroophat has always
been in the country managing her
businesses as against the lies that
she sneaked in last week from the
United States. Second, No documents were found in her possession and the lies that she was arrested while trying to evacuate documents were a fabrication and can only survive in their warped and distorted minds. It should also be noted that the officials only came to invite her for questioning and as against the phrase that she was whisked away; her driver actually drove her in her own car to the office of the DSS.

“Third, it was shamefully reported
that the DSS were involved because
there were so many armed policemen guiding her. This is
another fabricated lie. The Obanikoros stopped enjoying police protection from the day he left office as minister and as a woman, who is above board in all her dealings, she does not need one.

“Finally, we are using this medium to call on the officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to desist from persecuting an innocent woman, who has no dealings at all with either Sylva McNamara or MOB integrated that they are investigating.

“For emphasis, the innocent woman
has a history of High Blood Pressure
and heart related ailments and as
such, should not be dragged into
their biased and politicised
investigations. We have absolute confidence in the judiciary and we
hope to get justice in the course with the proviso that they obey the rule of law and avoid arbitrariness that we are seeing on daily basis.”