The Management of African Independent Television (AIT) says the station’s founder, Raymond Dokpesi, has been released following reports of his arrest in the United Kingdom on Sunday.
The television station, in a statement on Monday, said Dokpesi was delayed at the airport for his passport to be cleared by the UK authorities.
“Dokpesi arrived via Frankfurt from Abuja on a Lufthansa airlines flight and was invited off the plane before other passengers were disembarked,” the management of the television station said in a statement on Monday.
“Dokpesi was delayed at the airport for some hours before his passport was stamped and he was cleared by British Immigration officials for entry into the country.”
The statement added that the Peoples’ Democratic Chieftain (PDP) made the London trip following the invitation of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the party by the British government to share perspectives on issues around the next month’s presidential election in the country.
Dokpesi is the deputy director-general, of the technical and systems of the PDP presidential campaign council.
