Tell us about your London experience and did you really escape to Nigeria dressed like a woman and were you arrested with money belonging to Bayelsa State?

‎​I never returned to Nigeria dressed like a woman. I left this country to Germany for a major surgical operation and I was in the theater for eight hours. When I recovered from the anesthesia, the first person I called was our president then, Olusegun Obasanjo, and that was my greatest undoing. From that moment I started receiving very funny calls, I mean very funny calls.

I was alone but later my children in United Kingdom left their school to join me in Germany. On the 15th day, that morning the stitches were removed and I suggested to the doctor that I be allowed to travel to London and stay for two days before returning to Nigeria. The children had to return to school. The doctor obliged me and so I left Germany with my children. In the aircraft, I was flying business class and my children in economy, but my children were upgraded to come and sit with me surprisingly.

‎​How they knew they were my children I don’t know. When we got to Heathrow Airport, as they opened the aircraft, the Metropolitan Police came in and asked who was Alamieyeseigha and his two children, and I identified myself. The next thing I heard was: “You are under arrest for money laundering.” And I said no, you cannot arrest me. By international law, I am not even in your territory yet. I am still in the aircraft and had not even passed immigration.

Secondly, I am an executive governor of a state in Nigeria. I claimed my sovereign immunity. Detective Sergeant Ingram of the Metropolitan Police said to me: “You have no immunity. Your president said he has waved your immunity and we should arrest you.” And I asked, my president said so? He responded in the affirmative. I asked him, can you arrest any governor from any of the states in America if they commit offence here in your territory? He said: “No, but your president said we should arrest you.” He then put a call to Obasanjo and put the phone on speaker, and said: “Mr. President Sir, the subject, the governor of Bayelsa State, has been arrested. He is with us.”

Then Obasanjo blurted out: “Hold him o, hold him o, hold him o!” When I heard his voice, my spirit became dampened and then he used the other phone to call the Inspector General of Police that my people will react, so they should send mobile policemen from Port Harcourt and Delta to Bayelsa State.

‎​My children and I were searched but nothing was found on us. I was handcuffed because of the stress and the fact that the stitches to the surgery I had were removed that morning. I started bleeding. All my clothes were soaked with blood. So one of the Met Police said: “This is not fair. Remove the handcuff, he won’t run away. He is just coming out of the hospital. Why must you treat him this way? So they removed the handcuff from me and …asked my children to go home. Nothing was found on me. The few Euro I had on me, about 6,000, was given to me by my friend who came to visit me in the hospital from Russia. It was even meant for my children and, of course, all the documents were there. I was then transferred to their Black Maria to a police station and from there transferred to another vehicle and we drove very close to my house. I could see my house from where we were. We were in that vehicle for about 45 minutes and then the driver took off and we drove outside London, where they locked me up. All this while I was bleeding.

‎​In the night about 10.30, 11pm they brought a paper for me to sign that they found money in my apartment and I refused to sign. I asked where is the property list and who conducted the search. But I noticed nobody signed the document and so I refused to sign. They said if I don’t sign they know what to do and I said go and do what you have to do. They now confronted me with my assets declaration form from Nigeria. I was asked questions and I explained to them. There was nothing they could do. They now said I should go home, that is bail on self-recognition and be reporting to the nearest police station everyday from 9am to noon; that is Paddington police station, which is for terrorist suspects. So I went home.

‎​The next day I got a lawyer, Oditta, a Nigerian, who said the treatment meted out to me was not fair and that we should go to court to vacate some of the bail conditions. So we went to court. I couldn’t even move but I managed. We did not even spend three minutes in court. I was discharged and acquitted because they had nothing. As I was going home, I was rearrested by the same people and was taken back to detention. The following day, I was taken to a magistrate court on three charges. One, that in year 2000, somebody gave me £475,000. The second charge was that in 2003, another person gave me £400-and-something thousand and that it passed through me to somebody.

‎​The third charge was that they found money in my house approximately a million pounds in different currencies. Those were the three very frivolous charges and they took me to a racist court. My lawyer was not even allowed to talk. I was just remanded in prison custody and they took me to Bison Prison and kept me with mad people. I was with mad people for 15 days. Eventually good Samaritans rallied round and tried to get me bailed. Anybody that came up to be one of the sureties was in trouble. The person’s account will be frozen and will be investigated. It was terrible. Of course, I forgot to tell you, Nuhu Ribadu was at the airport to identify me.
When I eventually came out, we went to the high court. The judge insisted he was going to grant me bail when the prosecution requested for five months for materials with which to prosecute me to come from Nigeria because they had no evidence. The judge said: “How can you keep an elected governor in this place for five months? If you don’t have evidence to prosecute him now let him go.

‎​When you are ready he will come back.” He ordered my lawyer and the prosecution to go and work out the bail conditions. So all the bail conditions were met amicably by the two parties. I had already bought my ticket to return to Nigeria the following day when the judge will pronounce my bail. That morning, (the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation) Bayo Ojo came to court. He was very apologetic and told the court that he was already sleeping when Obasanjo woke him up to proceed to London, that I was going to be granted bail and he should come and stop it. He said they don’t need me in Nigeria because there is an able deputy that can handle whatever I am doing as governor. That I should be kept in England until the final determination of the case and that was the request of Nigerian government.

‎​The judge dropped his pen and asked him: “Are you sure you are the Attorney General and Minister of Justice?” Because in his 35 years as a judge he has never seen where a sovereign nation will go to another sovereign nation to ask that its own national should not come home. “You are writing history,” he said. The Crown prosecution now said: “My lord, it is cooperation.

We were the colonial masters of Nigeria. His Excellency is not going back to prison but to his house. If that is the request of Nigerian government that we should keep him here, we should oblige. We cannot because of this matter have diplomatic row with a country that is so dear to us.” The judge kept quiet for three minutes, shook his head and cancelled the bail application. Bayo Ojo apologized when we came out and said: “Your Excellency, I am under instruction. Please forgive me. So I returned to my home.

‎​‎​How did you eventually return to Nigeria?

I have said it before. Every other day, the Metropolitan Police came to my house. So one of those days, they took me out of London to an awaiting aircraft and when I asked where they were taking me, they said, look we don’t want your political problems. Go and solve it. The day we saw your Nigerian Attorney General in court making that type of statement, we knew that it was not a criminal matter but political and we are not interested in getting involved. So I was flown to Ivory Coast. They had warned me not to say certain things they did. So I was lucky a Nigerian was coming to do business in a chartered aircraft because I had no passport.

‎​I was just stranded in Ivory Coast in the evening when this Good Samaritan saw me. He was excited and asked what I was doing in Ivory Coast and I narrated my ordeal. So he said I should join him and he brought me back to Nigeria. I got home late. We flew to Lagos and the same aircraft took me to Port Harcourt. It was in Lagos I called my ADC to come and pick me at the airport and that was how I got home. I never dressed like a woman to escape from London. There were a lot of things and I am only abridging it because the stories are highly classified. The only thing I can say is that it is unfortunate.

‎​‎​Were you embarrassed that Nigeria was exposed in that manner to the outside world?

After my so-called impeachment, because there was nothing in that impeachment, every step they took I knew and it is known to all that I did not appear before any panel. I was impeached in the EFCC. When I was taken to police headquarters handcuffed, Obasanjo instructed that I should be flown back to England that night. So I was taken to immigration at midnight to do passport.

‎​They did passport for me, took me to the airport and now took my passport to British High Commission for visa. But that did not work because they refused. They had no choice but to bring me back to police headquarters. They summoned the Ambassador to the police headquarters and the man asked, don’t you have laws in this country? You said we should hold him and we held him. The man is here; he did not commit offence over there. If he had committed all the offence here, the man is here. People who commit offence run away but this one said he is going home. He has come home and why do you want to send him back? We don’t want him. He was summoned again to the (Presidential) Villa. Obasanjo threatened but they refused. Obasanjo had to write a stinker to the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, for allowing me to return home.

All these things happened because of third term. They did not even stop there. There are criminal matters I don’t want to talk about now. I was to die but God saved me. I was sent to Dubai for medicals and because of my ordeal the area that was operated on became infected. I was operated three times in Lagos in Dr Omotosho’s hospital. Finally they brought me to National Hospital (Abuja) and from national there I went to Dubai

They generated a letter; I had done anography. I could not even walk; somebody in the hospital (that is me) was planning to overthrow the government of Nigeria. Ribadu went to Dubai and generated a letter. I know even the person who typed the letter. The letter purported that I am a persona non grata and that the Dubai government said they were deporting me; that they should come and remove me immediately, and 12 security men were watching over me even if I was going to the toilet.

‎​That was how I was. Then they sent EFCC operatives to Dubai to remove me, with iron on my leg. I couldn’t even move without the hospital authorities knowing. May his soul rest in peace. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua intervened when he became President. He called me and said: “Ganuwa, they will kill you. That was how they killed my elder brother. (MKO) Abiola, claim your mandate; claim your mandate. He is gone. Whatever they want, give it to them and come out. I will give you presidential pardon. I am the President. Just come out and you will not spend one day in prison. I will send your younger brother (that is Goodluck Jonathan). Come out, come and help me solve Niger Delta problem.” It is rather unfortunate Yar’Adua could not fulfil his pledge to grant me presidential pardon before he died. I’m however hopeful that one day I will get it.

So, Goodluck came and we spoke, and they did what they did. They took me to court and the sentence. They carried me to Ikoyi prison, I signed and I returned home. But to God be the glory, I am alive to tell the story. I am constrained not to say certain things but at the appropriate time I will document my experience. It is going to be an interesting reading for leaders to fear God when dealing with people.
To answer your question, those events did not portray us in a good light, especially before those who knew the truth in England.

‎​What has the experience taught you?

I am humbled. There is indeed nothing in life. Why I say I am humbled is because if you recall when I arrived this country, when finally I regained my freedom, I had audience with the late president and said I was returning to Dubai to remove the iron that was in my groin. He said how can you go to a country you were deported? I replied, Mr. President I was not deported and I brought out my passport. I have been to Dubai over 50 times after that. That is to show to what extent people can go to fake. How wicked people in this country are and they can go all out to destroy one human being because of their interest.

So when I returned home, I had never seen that type of crowd that turned out to welcome me. This is somebody that stole their property, their money blind and yet the people came out. Even as governor, with all the apparatus and the money, I could not have mobilized that type of crowd. It took me about five hours from Yenagoa to Amassoma, my hometown; a journey of about 30 minutes drive, because of the crowd.

‎​So, I looked at it that yesterday I was going to places in a convoy and just in a split second I was sleeping on the bare floor, guns were on your head when you are even eating, no communication, no newspaper, no television, your lawyers have to apply before they can see you and they will be present. My children were arrested and molested. My wife was arrested and molested. So indeed, there is nothing one has not seen but to give one’s life to God. It has become very clear that if God does not allow, nobody can take your life.

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I reserved my comment, but.....


Not yet convinced!

baba iyabo na one crazy man. "hold him ooo" got me.
But his story sounds like fiction though. How can the met just put you on a plane traveling to ivory coast

some tribes are terrible..

Now all thanks to Goodluck, thieves are claiming to be Jesus christ now

Say all you want, I strongly believe that DSP Alams case was highly political. . .that was the sole reason!

saxywale: baba iyabo na one crazy man. "hold him ooo" got me.
But his story sounds like fiction though. How can the met just put you on a plane traveling to ivory coast

It might be true.how else did you think he was able to escape britain?

Jonathan see wetin u caused,if not for that yeye pardon wey u give dis yeye mán we will not be hearing this yeye story.

He should have shouted

"Catch am catch am thief thief thief"

Dis man can lie o

looks made up tho

Obj would have been a great figure in nollywood

its so weird when an ordinary Nigerian can see or feel the truth. an a Bayelsan, from yenagoa but I school in amassoma d same village where the ex governor hails from. this man is always celebrated all over d state, the same person that stole our own money.. dia is a saying 'old men gets scared when bones are used in proverbs' pls don't condemn who hasn't be condemn by his own people.

i'm not from bayelsa,i didn't know what happened there. Maybe he stole their money or not,i won't judge now because i know that someone somewhere will take this up if its a lie ...



To those shouting its a lie,please write your own part of the story so that we can understand your reason for saying this story is a big fat lie..

obasanjo is a heartless demon!!!!

saxywale: baba iyabo na one crazy man. "hold him ooo" got me.
But his story sounds like fiction though. How can the met just put you on a plane traveling to ivory coast

Because they knew it was injustice but they didn't want OBJ s trouble, so they wanted to give it SN escape colouration.

Lol....funny story.

The most interesting aspect is where yar adua told him to give this people what they want or they will kill him, to show that even he as a president can't stop those people.

It is those same people that GEJ is fighting against, ever wonder all the media hype, hatred been spread against GEJ even when it is obvious he has worked more than any other Nigerian president? It is the work of the cabals, when you don't do their bidding they will do everything to turn the people against you and is a shame some people falls for them but I am glad that a huge number of Nigerian's are now seeing through their plans.

Nigerian's should be inquisitive to find out those people that even a Nigerian president is afraid of, they are the people making sure Nigeria doesn't move an inch from where it was 40yrs ago, they are the oil subsidy cabals who is more powerful than your president regardless of who is the president, they are the people who put OBJ in power and who OBJ took orders from, they were the same people who wanted to give him a third term because he does their bidding very well but the Nigerian people refused and they were the same people who allowed a dead yaradua remain the president and wanted to remove GEJ by all means because they knows he won't do their bidding but because they can't decide to re-write the Constitution without making it obvious they now decided to use terrorism, GEJ threw a heavy punch at them by removing the fuel subsidy they ran mad, sponsored protest in some parts of the nation using some people who can't think with their brains, they invited terry g and others to sing for them and they danced carrying their papa's casket on their head.

The only thing that will save this country is the masses REVOLUTION, no political party can and no president can do it without the cabals turning the people against them.

Without the masses REVOLUTION there will not be any 247 power supply because the cabals make so much money from the fuel we buy for our generators, ever wondered why in most cases when Nigeria is playing a football match there might be power supply on the 1st half and immediately the 2nd half begins the light will go off? The cabals are more powerful than you might imagine. Only us can save our-self via revolution.

How old are you

chimoz: If am to be a president for a day, I will use it to make sure obasanjo goes back to prison. That man planted the seed of Anarchy in Nigeria, an evil genius to the core. That man can kill a day old child to get what he wants. God please take him, we no longer need him.

Good God

IDUMUOSE, THIS YOUR NEWS GET K LEG OOO.

I've said several times, if certain informations were not classified, Nigeria would not be in existence till now. I will neither believe nor doubt this testimony. But I know for sure DSP Alams could never have passed any airport in UK even as an animal without being noticed.