The police in Delta state have arrested the
Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties in the state,
Mr. Johnson Ajeboughuku, over a N1.3m bill incurred as accommodation
expenses in Protea Hotel in Warri.
The A-Division, Warri, is also on the trail of the Chairman of the Mega Peoples Progressive Party, Mr. Efe Tobor.
The Area Commander, Warri, Abutu Yaro, told journalists that Tobor’s alleged accomplice, was now with the police in A-Division as he was apprehended while trying to check out of his hotel room.
But Ajeboughuku, told journalists he had no idea that Tobor was owing the hotel.
He added that he only got to know the MPPP chairman during the build up to the April elections when he invited him to organise a news conference for his party in the hotel.
He further said he had never lodged in Protea Hotel and that it was after a news conference by MPPP and a birthday party he held for his daughter that Tobor asked him to spend some time with him in the hotel as political colleagues.
He said, “I went to meet Efe at Protea Hotel not knowing that he had been staying at Protea before I got there. All these talk about payment I do not know anything about. So when I got to Protea Hotel, Efe showed me a card and said the card was given to him to lodge in any room in Protea Hotel with special consideration.
“I did not know that Efe Tobor was owing them money. I did not know the arrangement for payment and nobody has ever asked me. What Efe Tobor told me before God and Man is that he was going out to buy a gear box for his car.”
However, the Chief Security Officer of the hotel, Mr Omare Charles, said though Ajeboughuku did not book the two rooms, he was arrested because he and Tobor had been staying in the hotel since April 24, an allegation Ajeboughuku denied.
Tobor was said to have escaped from the hotel on the pretence that he was going out to buy a faulty part for his car and had not returned since then. He has, however, been declared wanted by the police.
By Emmanuel Addeh, Warri Courtesy Of: Punch
The A-Division, Warri, is also on the trail of the Chairman of the Mega Peoples Progressive Party, Mr. Efe Tobor.
The Area Commander, Warri, Abutu Yaro, told journalists that Tobor’s alleged accomplice, was now with the police in A-Division as he was apprehended while trying to check out of his hotel room.
But Ajeboughuku, told journalists he had no idea that Tobor was owing the hotel.
He added that he only got to know the MPPP chairman during the build up to the April elections when he invited him to organise a news conference for his party in the hotel.
He further said he had never lodged in Protea Hotel and that it was after a news conference by MPPP and a birthday party he held for his daughter that Tobor asked him to spend some time with him in the hotel as political colleagues.
He said, “I went to meet Efe at Protea Hotel not knowing that he had been staying at Protea before I got there. All these talk about payment I do not know anything about. So when I got to Protea Hotel, Efe showed me a card and said the card was given to him to lodge in any room in Protea Hotel with special consideration.
“I did not know that Efe Tobor was owing them money. I did not know the arrangement for payment and nobody has ever asked me. What Efe Tobor told me before God and Man is that he was going out to buy a gear box for his car.”
However, the Chief Security Officer of the hotel, Mr Omare Charles, said though Ajeboughuku did not book the two rooms, he was arrested because he and Tobor had been staying in the hotel since April 24, an allegation Ajeboughuku denied.
Tobor was said to have escaped from the hotel on the pretence that he was going out to buy a faulty part for his car and had not returned since then. He has, however, been declared wanted by the police.
By Emmanuel Addeh, Warri Courtesy Of: Punch
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