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Portable Resists Arrest As Police Confirm Invasion Of Artiste’s Bar
Controversial Nigerian Artiste, Habib Okiliola aka Portable has once again hit the newstands with a latest video of him involved in a verbal scuffle with policemen.
The Zazu crooner was seen in a live video on Tuesday, challenging some police officers at his Ogun State bar as they tried to cart him away with his people.
The officers, in the now viral video said they received a petition against Portable and were there to arrest him
The artiste claimed a ‘Yahoo’ boy brought the policemen to take him, and the person behind the arrest was someone he had helped and even advised to go into music instead of internet fraud.
Portable argued that he is a ‘’super star, a federal government liability and someone who works for APC, so he cannot be arrested just like that.
He claimed that the police did not invite him for questioning and cannot just come into his establishment to arrest him.
Portable further accused the policemen of being fake ,adding that all of his earnings are legitimate.
The police in Ogun state have confirmed the incident.
The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed that men of the command went to effect Portable’s arrest.
According to the PPRO, four invitations have been sent to Portable to come for questioning after a fellow singer wrote a petition to the police command claiming Portable stormed his studio, got some people to beat him up, and then locked his studio.
Oyeyemi stated that Portable failed to honor the invitations and so the officers after securing a warrant of arrest from a competent court of jurisdiction, went to his bar to get him arrested.
He said Portable decided to cause a scene so as to prevent the police from doing their job,.
Oyeyemi further stated that Portable’s father intervened and promised to bring the singer on or before Friday, March 31.
He said the police will wait for Friday and that if Portable’s father fails to bring him to the station, they will proceed to arrest the singer.
