The Ogun State Police Command has given sensational singer Habeeb Okikiola, more commonly referred to as Portable, a 72-hour deadline to report to the nearest police station or face arrest by Friday.
In a statement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development.
Mr. Oyeyemi stated that Portable had been instructed to surrender to the police or face arrest.
He additionally affirmed that Portable’s dad had argued for his child’s benefit and vowed to bring him to the station.
Two videos of the artist cursing some police officers in Ogun state went viral on Tuesday.
In the video, Portable claimed that an internet con artist had brought the police to his bar to “for no reason” arrest him and his employees.
However, Oyeyemi, the spokesperson for the Ogun state police, explained that the police decided to arrest Portable after sending him five invitations and another through his father, but he never responded to any of them.
In addition, he stated that the Zazu singer was invited as a result of a petition submitted by a young studio owner who claimed that Portable and his assistants had beaten him to a coma and locked his studio.
“On receiving the petition, an invitation letter was sent to him five times, but he refused to appear at the police station,” Oyeyemi stated. He received an invitation letter once more from his father; He remained absent from the station.
“The police did not want a disruption of law and order, so his arrest was scheduled for Tuesday. Now he has begun a series of videos in which he says a variety of things. Although his father has been begging, we have informed him that Portable will be arrested if he does not surrender by Friday.
It is alleged that Portable’s father escorted him to the Police Headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, in 2022 after the singer refused to honor the invitation from the police regarding the alleged assault of a disc jockey in the Sango area of the state.
