Like a gold fish which has no hiding place, all efforts by Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, to keep his return from London where he served his jail term for money laundering as quiet as he can failed as it turned out a carnival in his Oghara country home.
Ibori who spoke on Monday through Mr. Tony Eluemunor, his media assistant, also denied the reports that he was deported.
According to a statement issued by Mr. Elumunor, “Ibori wishes to correct the impression created by some news reports that he was deported from the UK. Even though I had wanted to publicise my return to Nigeria so that wrong meanings would not be read into the public interest.
“I knew what my presence in Nigeria would elicit, and also because I never wanted any crowd that would gather because of me to disturb a single Nigerian in the course of their duties, all my efforts to keep the trip secret failed. The airline that brought me into Nigeria is public knowledge.
“So, it would be easy to verify that I was not deported because the deporting country’s officials would always hand over deportees to the Nigerian Immigration officials and documents would also be exchanged.
“Those who have chosen to report lies, and claim that I was deported know that no document exists anywhere in the world to back up those malicious claims.”
Like a gold fish which has no hiding place, all efforts by Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, to keep his return from London where he served his jail term for money laundering as quiet as he can failed as it turned out a carnival in his Oghara country home.
Ibori who spoke on Monday through Mr. Tony Eluemunor, his media assistant, also denied the reports that he was deported.
According to a statement issued by Mr. Elumunor, “Ibori wishes to correct the impression created by some news reports that he was deported from the UK. Even though I had wanted to publicise my return to Nigeria so that wrong meanings would not be read into the public interest.
“I knew what my presence in Nigeria would elicit, and also because I never wanted any crowd that would gather because of me to disturb a single Nigerian in the course of their duties, all my efforts to keep the trip secret failed. The airline that brought me into Nigeria is public knowledge.
“So, it would be easy to verify that I was not deported because the deporting country’s officials would always hand over deportees to the Nigerian Immigration officials and documents would also be exchanged.
“Those who have chosen to report lies, and claim that I was deported know that no document exists anywhere in the world to back up those malicious claims.”
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